TATITERA — Любовь основа нашей жизни

Your lips gave the ruby its color. You left — I grieve, and my heart is blood. Whoever hid in the ark, like Noah from the flood, He alone will not drown in the abyss of love.

Whose heart does not burn with passionate love for the beloved Drags out a joyless age without consolation. Days spent without the joys of love I count a needless and shameful burden.

Whoever grafted love’s tender rose Onto the heart’s cuts has not lived in vain! Both he who listened keenly to God with his heart, And he who drank the earthly sweetness of wine!

More ancient than all else is love, In the song of youth the first word is love. O wretched one, unversed in the world of love, Know that the foundation of our whole life is love!

Do not beg for love while loving hopelessly, Do not wander grieving beneath the unfaithful one’s window. Like beggar dervishes, stay independent — It may happen then that they will love you.

Passion for you tore the roses’ garment, In your fragrance is the breath of roses. You are tender, beads of sweat on silken skin, Like dew at the wondrous moment of roses opening!

More ancient than all else is love, In the song of youth the first word is love. O wretched one, unversed in the world of love, Know that the foundation of our whole life is love!