Don't seek a cause to part. I hoard each word you say.
So do not cut the bonds that our two hearts still tie.
I would no other man should ever come your way,
For fear lest with strange love my love might have to vie.

I long to drink my fill from those eyes deep and dark
And to your gentle words forever I would hark,
So, darling, be my sun when death is looming dark,
Then from my soul's warm nest my dream shall never fly.

Vagif's true heart can never from your love be free.
Forever I'll adore you. Can you not love me?
Oh, why when I approach you, darling, do you flee?
My kiss would draw no blood. No cannibal am I!

Translated by Tom Botting

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