1. No respite when patience departs and tears flow
Youth is linked to the soul's loss when it's gone

2. To tend and shepherd my youthful days though
No vestige nor ruins of it remain

3. Time has dragged its train in our parting
And for time's kindness endless excuses remain

4. Sometimes youth frolics, its gown flowing
Between its folds a soft, tender branch sways

5. It cheers the flirts and adorns with its liveliness
The prime of youth and a shabby, worn cloak

6. Do not lie, nothing in this world
Can for a single day replace one's youth

7. Gray hair is disgrace enough for a flirt
While youth intercedes, O man

8. Youth has gone, its vanity turned from you
Revelry and amorous verse no more suit you

9. The flirts have turned away, caring little
Their indifference the proof and shame

10. They shun you, no bond nor troth remains
No union, no covenant, no messages come

11. Would that death had stricken me with its arrows
So they'd cry for me before I was fully grown

12. The days of my youth left me but sorrow
Its memory stirs no more but barren grief

13. When a scout's youth starts to fade
Death stalks his trail, eager to seal his fate