Song IV (Litwinka and Niemiec Continued) pg. 25

Sorrowful among the flowers

For she is seeking Niemiec, her darling

To Litwinka, sorrowful among Lithuanians

Because she fell in love with a foreign youth[1],

            With Niemiec, violently it stretches out [its] arms

            Rushes over the rocks and the wild expanses

            To press [his] lover[2] to his cold bosom

            Until they perish together in the depths of the sea

And you, similarly, a passerby will take away

From [your] paternal valleys, O poor Litwinka

And you will sink into the oblivion of the waves

But more sorrowful, but all alone

            The heart and the stream warn in vain

            The child loves, and the Vilija runs

            The Vilija flows [off] with [her] German lover

            The child cries in the hermitage tower

Song V

Unhappiness[3] rules my fate

I am worth pitying

She who possesses my heart

Does not feel a sigh for me

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[1] Niemec= “German (boy)”

[2] Female form

[3] Or “misfortune”