(from Oehna)
Translated by H. Melvin Symmank

‘Oh, if only the true friend were yet here
I would ask of him the truth.’
I would ask of him the truth.’

‘If my sweetheart yesterday went home
With you, who I know -- how he came out of the war.’
With you, who I know -- how he came out of the war.

"So do not believe it, my friend
He went home with his brothers."
He went home with his brothers."

"My sweetheart he had yet there asked
Why do you go home so early, he had asked,
The clock has not yet struck twelve?"