NIEMCY: Darkwood - Wintermaerchen

On a bare rock below the stars
There sat amidst the raw winter wind
A bluebird, and I asked:
'Why don't you wander away?

Why do you stay, as the storms
Roll over meadows and fields,
While in the south far away there beckons
A beautiful sunny world?'

It gave an answer in a gentle tone
'Because I am not like the others,
Who, with tides and fortunes
Change their lighthearted minds.

There, they follow the Sun
Restless, from land to land,
They never have recognized
The still light in their own hearts.

It glows inside me with an eternal shine
- even when night falls over the Earth,
I sing, while the snow flakes fall,
Alone, a dreamy song.

Your eye also shines brightly,
Though your cheek may be pale;
It does show an inner glance
Into the eternal Realm of the Sun.

Let us live here together,
And a song from time to time
Let us sing of a withered bough,
That gloss of eternity.

Let us live here together,
And a song from times of yore
Let us sing of a withered bough,
That gloss of eternity'.