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Song of How I Die
- Like one who died because he never
- won the woman he greatly loved
- but saw her do what he most dreaded
- and so no longer wished to live,
- that, dear lady, is how I die!
- Like one who died for having adored
- a woman that never showed him favor
- but did, by God, what he most abhorred,
- making his life lose all its flavor,
- that, dear lady, is how I die!
- Like one, dear lady, who lost his mind
- because of the dreadful thing he saw,
- and then, unable to sleep or find
- any joy in life, could not go on,
- that, dear lady, is how I die!
- Like one who died for loving a woman
- without ever seeing his love returned
- and saw her accept, instead, a man
- who deserved, and deserves, to be spurned,
- that, dear lady, is how I die!
[English version by Richard Zenith]
