Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op.48 - 16. Die alten, bösen Lieder

The old, angry songs,
The dreams angry and nasty,
Let us now bury them,
Fetch a great coffin.

In it I will lay very many things,
Though I shall not yet say what.
The coffin must be even larger
Than the Heidelberg Tun.

And fetch a death-bier,
Of boards firm and thick,
They also must be even longer
Than Mainz's great bridge.

And fetch me also twelve giants,
Who must be yet mightier
Than mighty St. Christopher
In the Cathedral of Cologne on the Rhine.

They shall carry the coffin away,
And sink it down into the sea,
For such a great coffin
Deserves a great grave.

How could the coffin
Be so large and heavy?
I also sank my love
With my pain in it.