Your cry sounds sad
but your face also truly looks sad.
Right, faces that resemble you,
they are all only sad sounds.
An owl
becomes a friend
of people who live in loneliness
in an isolated house
and it cries for them,
and a wood owl is
the sound of dusk
which soothes a departed soul.
Ah, You who are in deep sorrow,
You are the scops owl,
the saddest of all birds in the world
created by the creator
to sooth
all night long sad lives
who can never fall asleep.