I breathed a gentle fragrance!

I breathed a gentle fragrance!

In the room stood

a sprig of linden,

a gift

from a dear hand.

How lovely was the fragrance of linden!

How lovely is the fragrance of linden!

That twig of linden

you broke off so gently!

Softly I breathe in

the fragrance of linden,

the gentle fragrance of love.