Translated by A. Z. Foreman - Due Time lyrics

Bound for your distant homeland's shore You left behind a foreign clime How long I wept before your eyes, That unforgotten, grievous time. Hands growing colder as they tried To hold you back with me a spell, My cry prayed you and heaven not To break the anguish of farewell. But from that moment's bitter kiss You tore away at last your face, Out of a land of sullen exile You called me to a different place. You said "When once again we meet Beneath a sky forever blue, By shade of olive trees, the kiss Of love shall reunite us two." But there, alas, where arching heavens Shine in a sparkle blue and deep Where olives shaded quiet waters You fell into the final sleep. Now all your beauty, your ordeals Are gone into the grave with you- And gone with them reunion's kiss But I still wait. It still is due.