Holla [English translation]

Down by the elderberry bush, blossoms grow delicately

Feathery white like snow, here on the tranquil lake

Where the young maids bathe.

Down by the elderberry bush, a fair lady

Wears the sun in her hair, dances so strangely

That the fog billows.

Down by the elderberry bush, she spins silk delicately

Fine as a girl-child’s hair, she spins every year

Until the snowflakes fall.

Down by the elderberry bush, the spindle falls still,

A thread broken, she gently attends her work

And makes the snowflakes fall.

As if in quiet splender under her watch,

When the snowflakes fall

Rest assured, my child, that they are indeed blossoms,

When the snowflakes fall.

Down by the elderberry bush, there on the Mirror Lake

Her white veil falls, minding, from under the white,

All the good souls.

Down by the elderberry bush, threefold in form

Through her deep gate, she soon brings aloft

Blossom-white lives.

As if in quiet splender under her watch,

When the snowflakes fall

Rest assured, my child, that they are indeed blossoms,

When the snowflakes fall.