1. Life was hard on the wanderer
So let us mourn life

2. And the lover was cruel to the stranger
So no more tears or prayers

3. The talk is over and he who told it
The book is folded and he who folded it

4. How strange is this love from
The beginning of time to its end

5. And its decree between he who
Kept loyalty and he who cast it away

6. The slain of love are not remembered
Nor reckoned among the sinners