"Why do you cry, dear mother?"
"I feel such grief in your presence.
Your eyes show unwounded pain,
were you doing something careless?
You have grown so much,
yet your eyes do not change
How I long to be with you,
in the land far away
But you can not stay here, I know,
for with the stars you must go.
Into the forest where you dwell
My life to you I owe
Please do not say goodbye
As you wander away from me
For the footprints in the snow
Will not last, will cease to be."
