Songs my mother taught me in the days long vanished; seldom from her eyelids were the teardrops banished. Now I teach my children each melodious measure; often tears are flowing from my mem’ry’s treasure. Songs my mother taught me in days long vanished; seldom from her eyelids were the teardrops banished.
Adolf Heyduk (1835–1923) translation by Natalie Macfarren (1826–1916)