I come to watch you go by every day,

enchanted little steamer always distant …

Your eyes are two blond captains;

your lip is a fleeting red

handkerchief fluttering a blood good-bye!

I come to watch you go by; until one day,

intoxicated with time and with cruelty,

enchanted little steamer always distant,

the evening star will fade away!

The rigging; winds that betray; winds

from a woman who passed by!

Your cold captains will give the order;

and the one who will have faded will be I …