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Eres agua con que todos You are water with which everyone
sus culpas limpian y lavan, their faults clean and wash,
que para ofensa infinita that for infinite offense
solo agua infinita basta. Fuego … only infinite water is enough. Fire …
[6.3] [6.3]
Y pues este tormento, And then this torment
Motivó más mi grave sentimiento, Caused my most earnest feeling,
Y Lisi con mi amor más inhumana And Lisi with my most unearthly love
Se obstenta cada día más tirana, Becomes more obsessed every day,
Ahóguese el dolor con que respiro y, The pain with which I breathe is held and,
Exhalando mi aliento, Exhaling my breath
En un suspiro repita mi quebranto, in a repeated, broken sigh,
Al compás de sus penas y mi llanto, to the beat of his sorrows and my crying.
Viendo mi triste suerte Seeing my sad fate,
Que su alivio en su pena that death would provide
Es ya la muerte. respite from his grief.
[6.4] [6.4]
Acabe mi amor, End it my love,
Fallezca mi fe my faith dies,
Y muera defino, And death defines
Mi fiel padecer, my faithful suffering
Ay, qué cadena te labra tu ardor, Oh, what chain your ardor creates for you,
Y en tus mismos ayes And in your own woes
Le vas añadiendo, You are adding
eslabón a eslabón. link by link.