Alma Minha Gentil [English translation]

My gentel soul, you departed

so soon from this discontented life,

rest there eternally in Heaven,

and I must live here on earth forever sad.

If there in the etherial seat, where you ascended,

memory of this life is allowed,

do not forget that ardent love

that in my pure eyes you have seen.

And if you see you merit

some cause for the pain left in me

the sorrow, without remedy, of losing you,

beseech God, that shortened your years,

that soon he'll take me to see you,

so soon from my eyes he took you.