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Graves tesmoins de mes delices,
Chesnes touffus, beaux précipices,
Que j'ay veu tant d'estez,
Jaloux et glorieux de mes felicitez.
N'attendez plus que je me rende
Ou autre que l'amour m'entende :
La seule Echo me nuit,
Et l'ombre qu'il me faut c'est l'eternelle nuict.

Adieu déserts, puisqu'Amarante,
L'ingrate amante,
Ne gouste plus vos ombres ny ma voix,
Vous n'estes plus mes bois.

** My feeble attempt at a translation - feel free to correct:
Stern witnesses of my delight,
Dense oaks, beautiful precipices
That I went to see so many summers,
Jealous and radiant with happiness,
No longer expect that I surrender myself,
Or that I listen to anything but love:
The only Echo that harms me
And the only shadow that I need are that of eternal night.

Adieu, deserts! As Amaranthus,
The ungrateful lover,
No longer finds delight in your shadows nor my voice,
You are no longer my woods.