Lament II

O cliff, dear cliff,

Why did you not collapse

When I had to part

From my Beloved?

Let it get dark, God, let twilight fall,

So that soon evening will beckon

And so that my life will also soon

Sink into dusk!

O nightingale, you dear,

O sing in the green grove,

Make my heart easy,

And relieve my heart's pain!

My heart, it lies stiffening

To stone in my breast,

It finds here on earth

Nothing, nothing to give it pleasure.

I am engaged to another man,

And love him not;

I do what my father

And my mother say.

I obey my father's

And my mother's words,

Yet hot tears without end

Does my heart weep.