The glitter of snow outshines the sun Immense whiteness dazzles my eyes I'm staring before myself and see blackness only The indifferent sky turns away from me Crystallized air imbibes any sound Inscrutable silence tears my eardrums I'm crying but can't hear myself The still-born echo laughs at me My feet sink in the deep snow Every step takes away my strength All-absorbing drifts Suck me so lazily Deep like an abyss they won't notice me Fatigue and cold lull me to sleep Sweet dreams and promising hallucinations The slumber carries away me on and on Instinct of self-preservation forgot about me My last memory was That I came here in sleep And now I'm falling asleep in this unreal sleep Cold, cold and cold again In the great beyond And the way from this land leads only to death I could see this dreadful world Only because I came here by day The day that's lasting a billion years The day that's overfilled with the cold At night this world ceases to be a world The night without stars and polar lights The night that's lasting a billion years The night that's overfilled with the cold Every life is dying here Every pride is disgracing here Every power is weakening here More than north Every triumph is falling here Northward of the north Every glory is declining here More than north Every majesty is fading here Northward of the north Every life is dying here More than north Every pride is disgracing here Northward of the north Northward of the north