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Lanquan li jorn son lonc e may M'es belhs dous chans d'auzelhs de lonh, E quan mi suy partitz de lay, Remembra'm d'un' amor de lonh. Vau de talan embroncx e clis Si que chans ni flors d'albespis No-m valon plus que l'yverns gelatz. Be tenc lo Senhor per veray Per que formet sest' amor de lonh, Mas per un ben que m'en eschay N'ai dos mals, quar tant suy de lonh. A! quar no fuy lai pelegris, Si que mos fustz e mos tapis Fos pels sieus belhs huelhs remiratz! Be'm parra joys quan li querray, Per amor Dieu, l'ostal de lonh, E, s'a lieys platz, alberguarai Pres de lieys, si be'm suy de lonh, Qu'aissi es lo parlamens fis Quan drutz lonhdas et tan vezis Qu'ab cortes ginh jauzis solatz. Iratz e dolens m'en partray, S'ieu no vey sest' amor de lonh. No'm sai quora mais la veyrai, que tan son nostras terras lonh. Assatz hi a pas e camis, e per aisso no'n suy devis. Mas tot sia cum a lieys platz. Jamai d'amor no'm jauziray Si no'm jau d'est' amor de lonh, que mielher ni gensor no'n sai ves nulha part, ni pres ni lonh. Tant es sos pretz ricx e sobris Que lai el reng dels Sarrasis fos hieu per lieys chaitius clamatz. Dieus que fetz tot quant ve ni vay E formet sest'amor de lonh Mi don poder, que cor be n'ai, Qu'ieu veya sest'amor de lonh, Verayamen en luec aizis, Si que las cambras e'l jardis Mi resemblo novels palatz. Ver ditz qui m'apella lechay e deziros d'amor de lonh, que nulhs autres joys tan no'm play Cum jauzimen d'amor de lonh. Mas so qu'ieu vuelh m'es tant ahis, Qu'enaissi'm fadet mos pairis Qu'ieu ames e nos fos amatz. |
During May, when the days are long, I admire the song of the birds from far away and when I have gone away from there I remember a love far away. I go scowling, with my head down so much that songs and hawthorn flowers aren't better, to me, than the frozen Winter. I trust the Lord's fairness in having formed this faraway love, but for each consolation I achieve I get two ills, because I am so far away. Ah! Why didn't I go there as a pilgrim, so that my staff and hooded cloak would be beheld by her beautiful eyes! It will certainly feel like joy when I ask her, for the love of god, to be hosted; and, if she likes it, I shall lodge near her, although I come from far away. Conversation is so pleasant when the faraway lover is so close that he would long to be welcome with kind intentions. Sad and pained shall I depart if I don't see this faraway love. I don't know when ever I shall see her, so far away our countries are. So many are the crossings and the roads that I can't tell. But be everything as she likes it. Never shall I enjoy love unless I enjoy this faraway love, since I don't know of a better and worthier one anywhere, near or far away. So abundant and sovereign her merits are that down there, in the Saracen's realm, I wish I were held in thrall for her sake. God, who created all that comes and goes and shaped this faraway love, give me strength, since I already have the intention, so that I see this love far away in reality and in a fitting place so that rooms and gardens shall seem to me to be new palaces. He is true who calls me grasping and longing for a faraway love since no other merriment pleases me as much as enjoying a faraway love. But that which I want is denied to me since my godfather made it so that I love and am not loved. |
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