Beautiful lassies, we are you now?

You who don’t answer me anymore

You who forgot all about me;

Left me behind—now my weakened voice

Wakes up the echo in vain.

Have you been eaten by angry beasts?

Or by your lovers you’re being kept?

Go on, answer me dearest,

I fell in love with you and I came

Down to meet with you here.

I caught a glimpse of you naked when

You were bathing in a clear lake.

And I came down thinking not

Of who you are—daughters of the moon

I—who am black robin’s son.