Let her go, she who plays the proud

Hugo Wolf

Let her go, she who plays the proud,

The magic herb of the flowery field.

It's clear what her bright eyes are after,

As day after day she likes a different man.

She carries on just like Tuscany's river,

Which all mountain streams must follow.

She goes on like the Arno, it seems to me:

Now she has many followers, soon not one.