Here the obstacles to true love are fickleness, unfaithfulness and rejection, as well as the practical realities of warfare or social convention, and they find expression through the medium of trees, birds and fountains. Surveying the emotional wasteland that her life has become, the lovelorn girl calls to her negligent lover, reminding him how the birds used to sing of their love. She accuses him of destroying the landscape of their love through his cruelty.
The repeated refrain, leda m’ and’ eu, expresses her longing for the happiness she has lost.
Vós lhi tolhestes os ramos en que siian e lhi secastes as fontes en que bevian; leda m’ and’ eu.
You took away the branches where they [the birds] perched and dried up the springs where they drank; Let me be happy.
— Travelling to Infinity (Jane Hawking), Loc. 3601–8
Lovelorn:
Lovelorn means being bereft of love or a lover—sad and unhappy because the person you love does not love you back. It can also mean being deserted by your sweetheart or pining from unrequited love.