1. Poetry is inspired by youth
And its imagination, wonderful and strange

2. Who can bring back to me
The pleasures I knew in the days of my youth?

3. Poetry is inspired by spring
And its beauty, novel and unique

4. Who can bring them back now that autumn
Has made spring's flowers fade?

5. Poetry stirs the heart
For union or fear of parting

6. I bade it farewell when I saw
My heart wearing the garb of inanimate stone

7. Poetry is brought to life by the imagination
If in this world joy can be attained

8. Who can bring it back now that I have lost
The pulse of reality and imagination?