1. O river, he returns to you after his absence
Longing overflows from his sighs

2. Perplexed, he gazes at your banks sorrowfully
His ardour almost felled by his tears

3. How often did he accompany you and find delight in
His morning walks to love or his strolls

4. Do you remember him and keep his covenant
Or have you forgotten his vows and features

5. You denied him his bliss and followed her
Yet he would ransom you both with his life

6. He would, from passion for your waters, wish to be
A shadow toying amidst its nymphs

7. Clinging to the sail of every ship
To grasp the sailor's songs

8. As the stars' lights nestle in his chest
And the waves dance at his laughter

9. O river, where has the time gone with its intimacy
And the sweet elixir of his cups

10. Has merciless time found its way
To what the lost one left in his solitude

11. His kisses on your banks lying dead
Did you preserve the echo of his kisses

12. Your waves that witnessed his love
And heard his agony and lamentations

13. Mistreated them nights of betrayal
And the tides made them drift in their flow

14. The paper mulberry surrendered its leaves to decay
And the paper that held kisses crumbled in its folds

15. The wind awaited his return with bated breath
Hoping to echo his melodies again

16. So it cast aside his flute in prolonged despair
And his tunes faded from its hearing

17. O waterer of trees, why do you only see
One morose, sunk in grief

18. Roaming the meadows searching
For the absent one distance veiled

19. Why have the hillsides cast their plaints upon you
And the prairie surrendered its youth to you

20. Ask the verdant land about its bloom
And the prairie about its poets and shepherds

21. They left and in the garden remains only a mourner
Alone with his tears and anguish

22. Sweet flowing stream, refuge for every tortured
Thirsty soul, you quench some of its thirst