FAREWELL
We part forever
from today,
Farewell beloved one;
And I, unto my death, your way
Will shun.
I care not
now where you may go.
You can no more bereave me,
Today the sweetest girl I know
Does leave me.
Nor shall
I as in former hours
Build Spanish castles high,
With star-lit windows, and with towers
Of sky.
When, shivering
with bitter cold,
Through winter nights uncertain,
I watched lest you perhaps unfold
Your curtain.
O what delight
to stroll with you
Beneath the flowering plum-trees,
When poured its light their branches through,
The moon.
How often did I secret pray
Swift night her sails would furl,
That we night thus forever stray,
Fair girl!
That I might
catch with rapturous thrill
The words that you let fall,
And that today I barely still
Recall.
For if today
I part the veil
And see what time portended,
I feel that long ago the tale
Was ended.
And when
the moon enrapts the streams
And trembles on the fen,
A thousand years have flown it seems
Since then..
For I no
longer am confined
In that sweet country's spell;
Aye, I have left you far behind,
Farewell.
(Translated by Corneliu M. Popescu)
