1. Let me plainly assume,

that everybody of you knows Golem.

Rabbi Loewi pitter-pattered him up out of mud,

as he was angry at his aunt.

The aunt had put his

old-new trumpet somewhere

[meant shofer , hint at Old new Synagogue in Prague]

and this way she offended him so much

that he made up an executioner at her.

2. The executioner should have been namely Golem

And he had to keep an eye strictly on the aunt,

Respectively to kill her

if she would not return the trumpet.

But the aunt was beautiful,

grown up well, totally passionate.

She was dangerous for all men

and mad for officers.

3. At the beginning she was afraid of Golem,

She disdained him as he was earthen

But she never got a suspicion

that he had fallen in love with her.

Believe, it is truly a wonder of wonders,

True, sincere and real,

He loved the seductive daughter of Eve,

Very much and in vain too.

4. One day at an hour of retreat,

he came to tell her, that he loved her,

But he found her in arms

of an officer of foot soldiers.

Tears burst out of his eyes,

jealousy put an arm in his hands.

He started to beat the pair with a coal rake

He killed the officer and the she-devil (dragon)

5. Nine months and nine weeks,

a regiment of army surrounded him,

Golem sadly sat on a porch,

partly crying, partly writing poems.

He wrote to the rabbi whose aunt he killed,

that he will commit a suicide,

They should have given the trumpet at his grave

as a remembrance of the reviled love.

6. Having written this, he exclaimed I cannot live any more,

jumped into water saying “Adieu”

There are two versions of his about his end,

out of which I cite only two of them.

According the first one, he had jumped into the water,

then dipped, and finally melted

According the second one, firstly he had dissolved,

then he dipped and afterwards he jumped there.