Long time ago my work began
   Completed now, when I'm a man
   I drunk the wine of paradise
   Much force I gained with many sighs
  
   "Now You cease away, You come to me
   You leave Your world with grim and cry out loud"
  
   I really know the uses of the world
   The voice I always hear, be ever heard!
  
   I won't stop here, but gently pass
   I will sink ere night be passed
   I happy child of earth was I
   bright as a star in our skies!
  
   Cold astral stars, eternity
   Now there may come new days to me
   Now motionless like bleeding ice
   I sing like wind short lives and dies
   Short lives and dies!