To *
Karl August Friedrich Fetzer
Ah if you were mine, it would be a finer life,
But instead it is only renunciation and grief,
And wasted lament and regret.
I cannot forgive my fate.
Ingratitude is good, and all the sorrow on earth;
Yes, my friends in coffins, corpse upon corpse -
All these are small griefs when I compare them to
The agony that I will never possess you.