Translation:V. Faded leaf

From branch into the distance From over trees and waves Leaflet blowing so in loneliness Where!, where you fly in longing ... I myself don’t know – therefore don’t ask me again: Among storm – fell the oak in horrendous night Which sometime was my strength among storms! Today wild force of fate tugs me... Up and down From villages to villages, Among wild tests Over hillock and grave! [I’m] lifted with unstable shoulder of the gales I fly, where kidnaps me will of fate, Where sooner or later the destination of rose To go, where even, laurel to disappear [is] the fate ...