1. Alone there on the hill
I sat lamenting the gloaming within me

2. I count my fleeting days
And weep for my remaining days

3. Grief renewed for me a tear
Perplexed between my eyelids

4. I knew my life's story through it
And the delusion of my soul and my aspirations

5. Between my eyes and the ground it has
A stream over a sorrowful declivity

6. So for me like it is a farewell tomorrow
And for me like it is a woeful story

7. I complained to the night of the injustice of life, so it turned complaining of its harm to me
It said: "I roam along, while those shining stars are my shackles"

8. I said: "And my soul threw away the fetters
Cast on it by the tyrannical powers of the body"

9. So the pulsations of my heart are nothing
But the echo of its cruel chains

10. I complained to the night of the injustice of passion
So it sent its weeping sighs

11. It said: "I love the daylight
And the dusk loves my draped edges

12. We both seek our intimacy
And each turns away in a different direction"

13. I said: "And in the heart from its love are
Gazes that dream of the beholder"

14. My companion, how can I complain to the gloaming again
Of what I complain of now

15. And my cheeks of youth passed by me
Wiping away my falling tears