Minstrel, serenade your sad euphony As I sing my song of rapture For its sweet melodies evoke Pictures of untouched beauty Minstrel, serenade your sad euphony As I sing my song of rapture Loveless! Lead the cotillion of melancholy Waltz with me in apathy Into the autumn shade My grim sonata of life A concerto for the unloved I now die without love Into the autumn shade