The dark eagles, sleep and death,

Sleep and death, the dusky eagles

Rustle all night around my head:

Around this head swoop all night long;

The golden statue of man

Eternity’s icy wave

Is swallowed by the icy comber

Would swallow the golden image

Of eternity. On the frightening reef

Of man; against horrible reefs

The purple remains go to pieces,

His purple body is shattered.

And the dark voice mourns

And the dark voice laments

Over the sea.

Over the sea.

Sister in my wild despair

Sister of stormy sadness,

Look, a precarious skiff is sinking

Look a timid dinghy goes down

Under the stars,

Under stars,

The face of night whose voice is fading.

The silent face of the night.