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| 1 | 1 | When the time comes that my cup is full, | When the time comes that my cup is full, |
| 2 | 2 | Goddess, spare me the sight | Goddess, spare me the sight of |
| 3 | 3 | Father Time at my bedside, with neither tears nor regret, | |
| 4 | 4 | cutting the tiresomely drawn out | Belatedly cutting the thread, so tiresomely drawn out, of a life too long. |
| 5 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 6 | Instead, a | Instead, call Love to arms; Alas! He has always despised me |
| 7 | 7 | And I know only too well his cruel wish | |
| 8 | 8 | That from my heart, as its crowning achievement, | |
| 9 | 9 | May already have flowed my life’s blood on to the reddened earth. | |
| 10 | my life’s blood on to the reddened earth. | ||
| 11 | 10 | ||
| 12 | 11 | But no! As I approach the evening of my life, | But no! As I approach the evening of my life, |
| 13 | 12 | Let my Youth, with its laughter, appear to me, quietly, unadorned and lovely! | |
| 14 | 13 | May she hold a rose, whose petals she might p | May she hold a rose, whose petals she might pick off and cast into the water; |
| 15 | 14 | ||
| 16 | 15 | I shall listen to the | I shall listen to the fountain’s tearful farewell |
| 17 | 16 | And, without there being any need for arrows or sickles, | |
| 18 | 17 | I shall close my eyes for the subterranean night. | I shall close my eyes for the subterranean night. |
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