Distance

O ancient homeland sweet!

Where will I find you again?

What pain this is!

Why do you pursue me?

Why do you mortify me?

O distant glow of love,

will you glimmer again after me?

Should this be my happiness?

I feel this sorrow is too heavy for me;

Who is thinking of me - who?

Soon I shall seek relief

in you, o gush of tears;

I shall then think it is enough,

Then I'll think of her kiss -

and that I must keep wandering far away.