1. My friend, when winter comes
With long nights and short days

2. And sadness, worries, cold, and clouds
And lightning, thunder, and rain

3. And broken branches, mourning birds
Freezing rivers and withering flowers

4. Do not complain to me of the seasons' turns
Nor of a weeping heart or one that breaks

5. Nor of a soul that curses this existence
Nor of a voice rising to blame fate

6. Recall for me no difficult lessons
No lengthy nights or insomnia

7. No confinement in this city's school
No fear of punishment or excessive caution

8. But do not recall for me a summer
That makes me forget this age

9. Or a countryside that calls to us
Or a dear house where someone waits

10. There on the meadow, how we sang!
And how we danced beneath the trees' shade

11. And how we drank from a fountain
And plucked delicious fruit

12. Between the hills and under cliffs
We hunted gazelles and tracked their trace

13. Ever to return with hidden longing
For hunting was but love's disguise

14. And a lovely sea, lovelier than it
Were the meadow's girls, the jewels they are

15. There on the sand, how they sat
Caressed by the fragrant breeze

16. That grew ever more perfumed
Increasing victims, and where's the escape?

17. My friend, that longing was sweet
For a day of return and leaving the city

18. Prolonged was the song of longing
Features vanished and images came

19. Thus, my friend, we recall nights
To forget those that persist

20. And recall a summer, love, and goodness
To forget winter, rage, and evil