Alas, if you love so much

Alas, if you love so much

as to feel like saying "alas", then why do you make

him who says "alas" die?

If I die you can only one

languid and sorrowful "alas" feel;

But if, my heart, you wish

that I should have life in you, and you in me,

You will have that sweet "alas" thousands and thousands times over.