Let revelry cease and cupids give over to grieving,
let all the charming people pause their charming –
my girl’s sparrow is dead,
my girl’s sparrow she loved so much,
the sparrow she cared about more than she cared for her own eyes.
Oh, he was sweet as honey, this little bird,
and was as familiar with her as a little girl with her own mother,
not wanting to fly away,
but hopping about her body, and chirping to her
confidentially. 
Now he has embarked on that dark journey
from which no one ever can return,
while I stand here on this fragile shore howling curses
into the underworld, where death takes everything that was beautiful,
bearing even this beautiful sparrow away from me –
this miserable sparrow, who has caused the eyes of my girl
to be so red and swollen with weeping.