I walk out alone upon my way

Through the gloom the cobble-stone path glimmers.

Night is silent while the desert prays

But a pair of stars exchanges faint murmurs.

In the awesome heavens all is peaceful

And the earth dreams, bathed in blue resplendence.

Why is this, my path, so hard and painful?

Why do I wait? Must I feel repentance?

No, the past has nothing worth my pity

There is nothing to expect from living.

I seek only freedom and serenity

And to drift off toward eternal dreaming.

My desire is not the grave's cold sleeping,

But I wish to spend forever drowsing

So life's forces in my breast are dreaming

And that filled with my breath, my breast is rising.

And a sweet voice singing love songs o'er me,

Day and night enchantingly serenading.

And a dark oak arches high above me

With its everlasting green leaves rustling.

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Translated by Kristin M. Harkness

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Выхожу один я на дорогу

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