1. Tormented wandering souls
Flailing in the pitch-black darkness

2. I find their sorrow in the night
And memories of their smiling days

3. They went searching for their love
And singing for their lasting pleasures

4. And I sailed them beneath the wings of darkness
Boats in the gloomy sea

5. Whenever waves surge
From the river onto the shores

6. And a boat anchored
Rocked by the dreaming breeze

7. A nymph leaned
And tempted it with her piercing gaze

8. So it forgot its homelands
Weeping over the loss

9. And its waves, her friends
Came kissing her feet

10. Nymph of the river, cast down your eyes
And be compassionate

11. You walk in a boat of shadows
Pushed by the gentle breeze

12. Your oar you picked from the light
Of stars on the dark sea

13. You charmed the river and shores
With songs and melodious lyre

14. You have the right to enchant all creatures
And elicit their stifled sighs

15. For your strings are your wavy hair
While you are the smiling player

16. The river saw the death of its sailor
In your eyes, O unjust one

17. It saw you and readied its oar
And surrendered its boat to the darkness

18. To stir up determination in the water and unleash arrows
The wave swelled and coiled back shadows

19. Leaving the eye naught but darkness
Oh boat of shadows that dissolved

20. With a nymph who heeds no blame
You left our sailor alone

21. With waves clashing on the shores
The nymph of the river left

22. Only songs that stir passion
A boat, wave and heart filled with love race

23. And a river blends its waters
Bearing them as foam when it sleeps

24. A star dims the gloom with its light
Like a spring on whose lips grass sleeps

25. And a boat pursues her traces
With its dreaming, wandering sailor

26. Her phantom from the wave smiles at him
Her cheek appears from every side

27. If he walks a thousand darknesses
As if he sees nothing, her voice reaches him

28. And the water speaks again
Yearning eyes gazed at him

29. From behind the clouds, warning him
Of peril and ruin that seized him

30. But his ears did not hear
The heavens' talk, where there is peace

31. He sailed aimlessly
Only to row until dawn

32. And follow the light of stars on the water
As they struck his soul with wailing

33. The night smashed his oar
And the gust tore his sail

34. The wave put out his lamp
So he shouted but that shout found none

35. You scowled, O night, at the miserable ones
So relent and let the dawn heal the wounds

36. He cried out, extending both hands
The time for departure from you has come, O land

37. Farewell, O shore that was the stranger's refuge
When he was weary of the path, so he rested

38. Farewell, farewell of the sad wretched one
Who will walk to death after struggle

39. And O sea foam, cheek of the sail
Tranquil breeze, melodious calling

40. We both yearn for the soil
So farewell, I fold my wings

41. O night stars, my friends
When the heart is ill by night and perishes

42. When your bright light wanes
Sorrow and the morning star shines

43. Tell it about a boy lost in the gloom
Engulfed by clouds and love of sailing

44. He saw a nymph with his eyes
So he was possessed by her for a time, then left

45. The shepherds may tell about him,
So they weep in sorrow and the plains cry

46. The wretched sad one died so the winds
Began shrouding him with the sail