1. What is it with sorrows, as if
They were fire burning my heart

2. And tears do not fall for it
A night as if my eyes were night

3. To bid farewell to youth’s comrades
Their mounts went away fading

4. I parted from them, my eye still
An eye after them and my heart a heart

5. I did not expect that I
Was solid against adversities

6. Or that I would remain, my blossom
Faded after my peers, more fading

7. Neither constant anguish
Nor flowing tear is ceasing

8. You were not wronged by calamities
If they befell whom you love