Keep me, my talisman, keep safe,

Keep me in days of persecution,

In days of pity and confusion:

I got you on a sorrow day.

And when the ocean raises waves,

All seething over me and roaring,

When thunders in dark skies are storming,

Keep me, my talisman, keep safe.

In solitude of foreign lands,

In bosom of a dull distraction,

And in disquiet of a battle action

Keep me, my talisman, keep safe.

Delusiveness with its sweet faith,

A magic light for one’s soul dear…

But it betrayed and disappeared…

Keep me, my talisman, keep safe.

I wish remembrance never may

Hurt my heart- wounds with vain recalling.

Good bye, my hope; sleep my longing;

Keep me, my talisman, keep safe.