I could not trade you for a nightingale. I could not trade you for a hammered golden bird. You took away my music. You set me here with blunted tongue to listen only. Someone is playing a grand piano with two hands. Someone is whispering to her shepherd. I never got to wear my high leather boots. I never became a sign for everything that is high and nervous. You entered me into a quarrel with a woman and you said, This is your voice. You put the moon in a microscope. You dimmed the beauty of everything that is not her and then you dimmed her beauty. I never got to build the barn. Only once did I ride with Kid Marley. Someone is squeezing the old accordion. They are performing the national dance. The patriots have gathered round. O sir, you were so beautiful as a woman. You were so beautiful as a song. You are so ugly as a god.