I should like to know if you love me

I should like to know if you love me,

if there is another than I that you long for,

if you live only for me,

if you know that I live in you.

What would you like to know?

What would I like to know?

O how thankless you are!

Ungrateful, O God, why?

The plants know,

and the mountains, the breezes,

the birds, and the springs,

and only you do not know

what my soul is like.

I know it, but I want to feel it,

to hear it repeated.

If together we repeat it

what harmony that would make.

You begin, who in canon

I want to follow.

I love you more than these eyes,

much more than life

you will always be for my good,

always, forever I want to adore you.