O the soft, soft dreams of the garden of roses!

They creep ... (I look not) ... but they steal and creep.

Laurin the king of the rosy garden

Has a magic girdle that none can break.

It makes the pulse of his life to leap

With twelve men's strength. In the rosy garden

He is feared and feared for the girdle's sake.

Laurin the king of the garden of roses

Has a magic crown where strange birds so sing

That resistance and doubt by their song once kissed