From “SWEET ELEGIES”

                      I

Today from the great path, under the bright and mighty sun,
Silent like a tear I have looked back,
And your voice from far away, with a scent of death,
Came to howl to my ear a sad “Never again!”

So sad that I have cried until turning numb …
I know you are so far away you will never return!
There are no tears able to wash the kisses of death …
—Sister souls of mine, never look back!

Past times close like coffins,
In the Fall the leaves in golden cascades
Roll …and the new blossoms blaze in the trunks …

—…The nights are black paths of dawns…—
Listening to the sweet hours sadly fading away
Let us talk to the heart about other flowers.