I had a guinea golden [German translation]

I had a guinea golden -

I lost it in the sand -

And tho' the sum was simple

And pounds were in the land -

Still, had it such a value

Unto my frugal eye -

That when I could not find it -

I sat me down to sigh.

I had a crimson Robin -

Who sang full many a day

But when the woods were painted -

He - too - did fly away -

Time brought me other Robins -

Their ballads were the same -

Still, for my missing Troubadour

I kept the "house at hame".

I had a star in heaven -

One "Pleiad" was it's name -

And when I was not heeding,

It wandered from the same -

And tho' the skies are crowded -

And all the night ashine -

I do not care about it -

Since none of them are mine -

My story has a moral -

I have a missing friend -

"Pleiad" it's name - and Robin -

And guinea in the sand -

And when this mournful ditty

Accompanied with tear -

Shall meet the eye of traitor

In country far from here -

Grant that repentance solemn

May seize opon his mind -

And he no consolation

Beneath the sun may find.