Adelbert von Chamisso — Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz gethan

Now thou hast given me, for the first time, pain, how it struck me. Thou sleepst, thou hard, merciless man, the sleep of death. The abandoned one gazes straight ahead, the world is void. I have loved and lived, I am no longer living. I withdraw silently into myself, the veil falls, there I have thee and my lost happiness, O thou my world!