A striving that is full of longing
Is pulling my heart apart,
So much so that all life
Is dissolved in pain.

It awoke in suffering -
This young mind,
And love brought 
Me to the goal.

You noble flames
Woke me up;
Alongside that
The journey took me to God.

It was a fire
That drives everything;
Something strong and clear
Which remains forever.

What we were striving towards
Was meant sincerely;
What we lived through together
Remains deeply united.

Then a separation appeared
In my breast;
The deep suffering
Of the pleasure of love.

In the foundations of my soul
A single image lives on for me;
The fatal wound
Has never healed.

Many thousands of tears
Have flown down;
An eternal longing
For her, into the grave.

In the waves of love
Her spirit is hovering,
Until the pulling apart
Tears up my breast.

A star appeared to me
From Paradise;
And that is where we are flying off to
United without any doubt.

Here I still feel a moistening 
To soothe my eyes
When I feel her glowing around me
That child of heaven.

There is a magic 
Over me now,
And which is forming
All of this in its own way,

As if we were being wedded 
By the power of a spirit,
Where soul joins soul
As they surge onwards.

Although it is broken,
This heart of mine,
I shall still hold it to be something sacred,
This pain.