1. You were gone, but tears did not depart from me,
Nor did despair cease its constant mourning.

2. Love awakened longing deep within my soul -
Tell it that my heart is now broken and torn.

3. O day of parting - you have shattered my heart!
When will it wake, these wounds again to mend?

4. If my dear one is absent, love brings despair,
Yet memory and yearning bring me joy without end.