Mother! don't say
My son passed on alone
Here is the sky
Washing me with the rain of her eyes
The autumn has made me a coffin
From its yellow leaves
And this is the land
Opening her arms wide to me
And hugging me to her breast?
No, dear mother!
Don't say my son died alone,
The land which I worshipped all my life
Is sucking my blood, drop after drop,
And gives me an eternal abode deep in her heart.