Sleep and death, the dusky eagles

The dark eagles, sleep and death,

Around this head swoop all night long;

Rustle all night around my head:

Eternity’s icy wave

The golden statue of man

Would swallow the golden image

Is swallowed by the icy comber

Of man; against horrible reefs

Of eternity. On the frightening reef

His purple body is shattered.

The purple remains go to pieces,

And the dark voice laments

And the dark voice mourns

Over the sea.

Over the sea.

Sister of stormy sadness,

Sister in my wild despair

Look a timid dinghy goes down

Look, a precarious skiff is sinking

Under stars,

Under the stars,

The silent face of the night.

The face of night whose voice is fading.