Romanç de na Roseta [English translation]

I was travelling by Cotaina:

A fig tree grove on each side (of the road);

There were apples aplenty

And white wine to keep me refreshed.

I left Cotaina

Deeply troubled;

As I was travelling down the road, someone told me:

"Bartholomew, Rosie is dead".

I don't know whether they were doing it on purpose,

Or just to make me feel more aggrieved...

Some would tell me that she was dead;

Others, that she was feeling better.

I went to her home

Demanding to see our Rose;

This is the answer I got:

"Rosie is going to die".

As I was climbing the stairs

I was all alone;

She was covering her face

With the top of her bedsheet.

"Rosie, are you so afraid of me

That you would hide under the sheets?"

-"Batholomew, you have the key

That opens the doors to my heart".

Her mother asked, weeping:

-"Rosie, are you feeling any better?".

She answers: "No, my dear mother...

My illness is getting worse!".

Once it was time for her to die,

Her boyfriend was by her side.

He gave her a flower

That looked just like a seraph.

When they were taking her to the graveyard,

Four young men carried her coffin;

The four of them had been her suitors...

It was sad enough to cry!

The next day, early in the morning,

He left his home

And the only thing he could say was:

"Rosie isn't mine anymore".