Lepa Protina kći [English translation]

I was still very young

Chased after some pond birds at the time

When she had come to bathe

The beautiful archpriest's daughter

She didn't know where I was

That I'm looking at her through the sedge and reeds

And over the river the night descended

Like a cloak

The moon shines over the willows

The sky bejeweled by swarms of stars

And drops of water like pearls

Glimmering all over her

Oh, crazy heart, crazy dreams,

Already all my friends turned bachelors

Yet I wanted only the one

The beautiful archpriest's daughter

A strange song resounds through the street

That winter the wedding party had come for her

From afar, some other world

Foreign to me

And I just walked down the street

The first snow was falling

And still, at times, jingle the bells

That are carrying her to who knows where

To marry, I have when

Here, I remained a bachelor till now

But I had never again met

The beautiful archpriest's daughter

A life, simple, calm

Sometimes I toss a card, or write a verse

Things happen

And I keep myself out of their way

I'm loving good ones, I'm loving easy ones

Some of them right, some not

And all are faeries, all of them queens

And all insignificant compared to her