"Get up, my dear friend,

fair and beautiful lover - come to me!

Look around you: Winter is over;

the winter rains are over, gone!

Spring flowers are in blossom all over

The whole world's a choir - and singing!

Spring warblers are filling the forest

with sweet arpeggios.

Lilacs are exuberantly purple and perfumed,

and cherry trees fragrant with blossoms.

Oh, get up, dear friend,

my fair and beautiful lover - come to me!

Come, my shy and modest dove -

leave your seclusion, come out in the open.

Let me see your face,

let me hear your voice.

For your voice is soothing

and your face is ravishing."

"Then you must protect me from the foxes,

foxes on the prowl,

foxes who would like nothing better

than to get into our flowering garden."