Walpurgisnacht [English translation]

In the night-sky tonight

The witches1 rise

Wild folk and Lilith's kind

Lurking, secretly ride the winds.

Let us wander to the fires

Whispering, reach for the stars

Both the good and the bad word

Take us (further) on and on tonight.

In the meadows our dreams will ring

And the winds will sing our songs.

Let us leap over the fires with the sparks

On Walpurgis Night!

Hear the fiddles, hear the fiddles,

The fires are kindled!

Follow the round dance, follow the round dance

On Walpurgis Nicht.

Unruly in the fiddles' play2

Our nightly round dance spins

And we join, wild and free,

This old magic.3

Only once in great circles

We dance in that way

Until the first light of morning

Breaks our dream-web.

In the meadows our dreams will ring

And the winds will sing our songs.

Let us leap over the fires with the sparks

On Walpurgis Night!

Hear the fiddles, hear the fiddles,

The fires are kindled!

Follow the round dance, follow the round dance

On Walpurgis Nicht.

1. "Zauberweisen" would literally be "knowers of magic", so maybe "magi" or "sorcerers" would be better, but I've currently put "witches" due to them being most commonly associated with Walpurgis Nicht - but I'm open to countersuggestions. 2. Just like the English verb "play", so does the German "spielen" mean both "to play (a game)" and "to play a musical instrument".3. I'm aware that the order of words in my translation might sound unusual in English and appear to be too literally taken from German, but I was afraid that if I put "And we join this old magic wild and free", which would sound better, it might sound like "wild and free" referred to "magic", and not to "us".