Schaue trauernd, wie im Wald
Blatt um Blatt zu Boden fallt,
Deine Frau hat dir befohlen
Einzukaufen Holz und Kohlen.
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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 532.
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- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "November", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Look with sorrow how in the forest
Leaf upon leaf falls to the ground.
Your wife has ordered you
To purchase firewood and coal.