1. You cannot undo what we have lived
Cease scattering us, cease your defiance

2. You blame the times, yet they
Are innocent, we bear the guilt, tyrants in rebellion

3. That we meet again, after battles
In half-peace, still half-peril

4. I want from you now no concession
Just continuance, no gambles

5. I'm tired of hiding how I feel, only
To stay while my soul travels afar

6. A thousand troops of sorrow in my ribs
More fierce and fell than conquering armies

7. Ask me of the losses I have known
Fruit of my folly, laughing derisive!

8. Ask of my world-hatred and disgust
I take the Truth as model, hating the infidel

9. No homeland, all countries are my own
My heart a friend to migrating birds

10. He whose home is exile finds sleep
While disasters and calamities stay wakeful

11. When my first world is too confining
And niggardly denies what I desire

12. There is always the world to come
With poetry I journeyed and travelled on

13. My God-ward heart will journey onwards
God grant you a heart so narrow

14. Its anguish floods out into sighing verse
To console the poet in his test

15. We met what we feared, claimed our portion
Fate stretched its hands against us both

16. Clutching at straws in the coffin
Seeking a ship's missing quarter

17. Our lives passed on the waves' bench
Greetings to weakness that drowns the voyager!

18. Without you O God we'd freely choose
The death-road, unafraid of graves

19. Without you, despair would better suit us
Than patience hiding its tidings

20. Without you our strength would not endure
While all around weaken and fail

21. Without you - for in you lies our hope
No loser would love his loss!

22. Where do you go - hear me - I've not said
Of sorrow, but its dying fall

23. My heart wishes only this - its withdrawal
From war, if peace be a gamble