Long time ago my work began

Completed now, when I'm a man

I drunk the wine of paradise

Much force I gained with many sighs


"Now You cease away, You come to me

You leave Your world with grim and cry out loud"


I really know the uses of the world

The voice I always hear, be ever heard!


I won't stop here, but gently pass

I will sink ere night be passed

I happy child of earth was I

bright as a star in our skies!


Cold astral stars, eternity

Now there may come new days to me

Now motionless like bleeding ice

I sing like wind short lives and dies

Short lives and dies!