The mouth of a girl, whose corpse lay long in the rushes,
looked so gnawed away.
As the breast was broken open, there was the gullet, full of holes.
Finally, in a recess below the diaphragm,
a nest of young rats was found.
One little sister lay dead.
The others lived off of liver and kidney,
drank the cold blood and
lived a lovely childhood here.
And sweet and swift they met their death:
They were all tossed into the water;
Oh, how the little snouts squealed!