| «Go down, go down, clear sun, go down and get dark | Descend, descend, pure sun, descend and smother your gold, |
| and you too, clear moon, run away get drown, | and you as well, chaste moon, flee, be swallowed by shadow, |
| Black woods, black sister, we both are getting black | O night-black forest, black sister, together we darken and fold, |
| you for your black leaves, woods, I for my youth | you for your sable leaves, my forest, I for my youth grown fallow, |
| Your leaves woods sister, again will return | Your leaves, O woodland sister, will rustle back again, |
| My youth woods, sister, won’t come back» | But my youth, forest, sister—will not return to men. |
| «Zajdi, zajdi, jasno sonce, zajdi pomrachi se | Set, set, unclouded sun, sink and shroud your flame, |
| i ti, jasna, ej mesechino, begaj, udavi se, | and you, limpid one, O moon, run, be drowned in gloom, |
| Crni goro, crni sestro, dvajca da crnime, | O shadowy wood, shadowy sister, let us both bear the same, |
| ti za tvojte lisja le goro, jas za mojta mladost» | you mourn for your leaves, forest, I mourn for youth’s tomb. |
| Tvojte lisja goro sestro, pak ke ti se vratat, | Your leaves, O sister forest, soon to you shall be borne, |
| Mojta mladost goro, le sestro, nema da se vrati" | My youth, O forest, sister—never again, never reborn. |