Beside the crystal waters of a brook, in the greenwood,
Sits a young maiden, forlorn and troubled.
The brook flows on, the spring babbles,
And deep in thought the maiden speaks through her tears.
"Come back to me, dear stranger, young wanderer mine,
That I may pass away in your arms, in your passionate embrace!"

Translated by Albert B. Lord, in Bela Bartok and Albert B. Lord, Serbo-Croatian Folk Songs (New York: Columbia University Press, 1951), 401.