Oh, Angel of a dismal lonesomeness
From up above!
I hear again: my scary Angel says –
"Forget your love!
All of your dreams – so deeply sad and good –
Are now so real.
I've been your friend from early childhood
And always will.
My gaze can give you dreadful pain of waste,
Be sure in this,
But I will give you cold and heady taste
Of tender kiss.
I'm Angel, but a very cold and grim,
My faithful friend,
I'll be your sweetest and the saddest dream
Until your end.
My kiss will cure your lonely, mournful cry
And you will hear
The sounds of a forgotten lullaby.
Come here, come here!"
The darkness flows again from up above,
My Angel sees,
That all the people, that I care and love
Are enemies.
(1895)

















