Where sunless rivers weep

Their waves into the deep,

She sleeps a charmed sleep:

Awake her not.

Led by a single star,

She came from very far

To seek where shadows are

Her pleasant lot.

 

She left the rosy morn ,

She left the fields of corn,

For twilight cold and lorn

And water springs.

Through sleep, as through a veil,

She sees the sky look pale,

And hears the nightingale

That sadly sings.

 

 

Rest, rest, a perfect rest

Shed over brow and breast;

Her face is toward the west,

The purple land.

She cannot see the grain

Ripening on hill and plain;

She cannot feel the rain

Upon her hand.

 

Rest, rest, for evermore

Upon a mossy shore;

Rest, rest at the heart‘s core

Till time shall cease:

Sleep that no pain shall wake;

Night that no morn shall break

Till joy shall overtake

Her perfect peace.

翻譯：

明暗的河流哭泣，

波浪無跡，

熟睡的她：

喚不起。

在孤星指引下

她從遠處來這里，

尋找蔭涼……

她的歡樂地。

 

她離開玫瑰色晨曦，

離開玉米田，

尋求黎明的寒冷孤單

和汪汪清泉。

睡夢中，如同透過沙幕，

她看見到了蒼白的天，

聽到了夜鶯

哀鳴憐。

 

休息，休息，完全休息

放松眉頭和胸膛；

她面向西方

紫色的土壤。

她看不見平原和山坡上

成熟的谷、糧；

她感覺不到雨水

落到她手上。

休息，休息，休息，永遠休息

在長滿青苔的岸上；

休息，在心中休息

直到時間停止：

不會有黎明破黑夜；

不會有痛苦驚夢境，

直到喜悅壓倒

她完美的寧靜。