English translation:

Oft I am glad, and yet I long to weep,
For no one shares my joy in fullness deep.
Oft I am sorrowful, yet still must smile,
Lest any see my fearful tear awhile.

Oft do I love, and yet I softly sigh;
Oft must my heart in silence close and lie.
Oft I grow angry, yet I smile instead,
For it is fools on whom my anger’s shed.

Oft I am warm, yet tremble in my fire,
For frozen arms the world around me wire.
Oft I am cold—and blush in spite of this,
For still the world cannot my love dismiss.

O you alone who share my joy’s true part,
You know the breast where I could bare my heart.
O if you knew me, loved me as I am,
With you I could be wholly, simply, I.

Oft I am warm, yet tremble in my fire,
For frozen arms the world around me wire.
Oft I am cold—and blush in spite of this,
For still the world cannot my love dismiss.

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