As the fate decreed I came across the edifice So lonely and deserted The mansion stood among the trees A hundred years elapsed The breath of life has left this place But gloomy walls retained The traces of joy and pain
Lurked in the dusk Behind this house Forsaken graves All overgrown with weeds
As the first light of dawn Pierced through sombre wood And engilt the apices of toombstones Marvellous portrayal Of a girl arrested me Goddess stared at me from marble slab
Never I have seen Such a surpassing beauty Her image was so vivid It seemed to me she had revived Days and nights I spent In private with her lovely shape Since I have seen her face Depicted on a stone Full of bewitching grace
I shall never learn the cause Of what has cut her life so short Right in the bloom of youth The fresh flower was engored Sprinkled with blood Her beauty withered To find its death and rest And all the delights of life Has been shrouded In darkness right away In darkness...
Life is worth to go on No longer anymore That is what I realized at once Sublime old tree rose next to her grave Here comes the cord Soon I'll stay forever by her side
Left face to face Amidst the graves Forevermore In unity as one in dusk we rest