You are a shadow at day
and in the night a light;
you live in my laments
and in my heart survive.
Where I should pitch my tent,
you live there with me tight;
You are a shadow at day
and in the night a light.
And anywhere I ask of you
I hear about your life,
you live in my laments
and in my heart survive.
You are a shadow at day,
yet in the night a light;
you live in my laments
and in my heart survive.
— translated by K-M Skalkenæs, January 2014
Note: I couldn’t bring myself to translate the title, since nothing worked quite as strongly in English as the original German.