The birds love in the shade 

Sweet smiles the night
All creations slept and smiled
...never will it be!

Give me light, give me pride, beam on me

Away the vapour flew
Shining beams of love
Sweet dreams, pleasent beams
But I'm bereaved of light

Give me light, give me pride, beam on me

Angels in the sky, the give me light
They beam forth brightness on a darkened world
A holy angel, he guards my bed
Reach me your mighty hand!
I can't choose but grief destroy

The birds in the shade
Sweet smiles the night
All creations slept and smiled
...never will it be!

I gave my heart away
Weeping tears on infant's tear
Sweet dreams form a shade
Happy silent moony beams!


With how sad steps You climb the skies ! 

How silently, how pale Your face...
What may it be, that even in this place
that busy archer his arrows tries ?
Liebe verendet zu Staub und verlabt mich
Mein Geist, er schaut auf zu den hoheren
Zielen und reichert fur mich Unvergangliches
an, Vergangliches bringt mir nur
endliche Freuden
Leave me, oh love, which reachest but to dust
And You, my mind, aspire to higher things
Grow rich in that which never takes rust
What ever fades but fading pleasure brings
Verbreite die Strahlen, gib' mir Deine Macht,
die die Wolken besiegt und das Licht mir bewegt
durch den Fruhling des goldnen belebenden Blickes
Ich suche den Weg in der Dammerung schwer
And let the day be time enough to mourn
Let walking eyes suffice to vail their scorn
The shipwreck of my ill-adventured youth
Without the torment of the night's untruth