Lines 11-26 - Translation

fissus erat tenui rima, quam duxerat olim, cum fieret, paries domui communis utrique.

The wall had split with a thin crack, which once had developed when it was being built, shared between each house.

id vitium nulli per saecula longa notatum [est] - quid non sentit amor?

That flaw was spotted by nobody, through the long ages - what does love not feel?

primi vidistis amantes et vocis fecistis iter, tutaeque per illud murmure blanditiae minimo transire solebant. 

you lovers were the first to see [it], and you formed a path for your speech, and your loving words grew accustomed to cross safely through that [crack] with the tiniest whisper.

saepe, ubi constiterant hinc Thisbe, Pyramus illinc,

Often, when they had set up their positions, Thisbe on one side, Pyramus on the other,

inque vices fuerat captatus anhelitus oris, "invide" dicebant "paries, quid amantibus obstas?

and in turn their breath had been seized upon from their mouth, they would say “envious wall, why do you stand in the way of us lovers?

quantum erat, ut sineres toto nos corpore iungi aut, hoc si nimium est, vel ad oscula danda pateres?

How much would it have cost for you to allow us to join our whole bodies, or, if this is too much, to be open to the giving of kisses?

nec sumus ingrati: tibi nos debere fatemur, quod datus est verbis ad amicas transitus auris."

We are not ungrateful; we admit that we owe to you the fact that a passage was granted for our words to loving ears.”

talia diversa nequiquam sede locuti sub noctem dixere "vale"

And so they spoke of such things, in vain, sitting separately, and at nightfall they said “farewell”

partique dedere oscula quisque suae non pervenientia contra. 

and each gave kisses to their side [of the wall], which did not reach through to the other side