Down in this valley, lost and obscure   Rivers are peaceful and shallow   I came this way on a sunny, bright day   Confounded by traces I followed   Did they return or never die   Were they not touched by the years that went by   Once broken eyes with this mighty disguise   See what all wicked survived      Hide in the sunset - Silva Mea   Screams in the night - lost ancient light   One with this forest - Silva Mea   The candle of time I blew out, this is mine      Farther and farther within this woods   Bloom the most beautiful flowers   Steps make no sound on this velvety ground   Where life's not depending on hours   Onward they fly, cross clearest skies   Power and beauty of wild, pounding life   Eternally free, towards paradise flee   Escaping from mortal men's eyes      And when the light of eternity falls   Bright eyes will blink from the shadows   Safe in the arms of this magical warmth   Tranquillity roams through the meadows   Out of the haze there stands amazed   By sparkling and glistening shimmer embraced   The overwhelmed son with the wisdom to come   To tell where the children have gone