But these are Gunnbiorn's skerries wan,

Meet harbour for a hapless man.

In all lands else is love alive,

But here is nought with grief to strive.

Fail not for a while, O eastern wind,

For nought but grief is left behind.

And before me here a rest I know,"

So many times over comes summer again,

"A grave beneath the Greenland snow,"

What healing in summer if winter be vain?