Gone with the Swallows + 

Must I convey at last the news to thee? + 

Must I now mourn the love that lived in me? + 

Gone with the autumn, with the dying year. + 

Gone with the kisses that are yet so near! + 

Gone with the swallows somewhere o’er the sea! + 

But with the Spring will he again + 

Return, will he with me remain? + 

Must I till then, remembering naught, + 

Forgetting all that love had brought, + 

Grope in the shadows of the slain? + 

Must I forget the day + 

That took my love away, + 

And all the happy hours + 

That reared for him their towers + 

And crowned him with the flowers + 

Of all the queens of May? + 

Must I alone + 

My once my own, + 

In my retreat + 

The new year greet, + 

And winter meet, + 

And winds hear moan? + 

Not yet + 

Can I + 

Forget; + 

But why + 

One clings + 

And sings + 

To things + 

That die? + 