We are utterly dream- entangled

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by Walter Calé (1881 - 1904)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Wir sind ganz traumbefangen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Wir sind ganz traumbefangen,
wir sind aus anderm Land,
wir halten eine Wage [sic]
in unsrer rechten Hand.
 
Wir sind sehr stillen Mutes,
die Schalen schweben gleich.
Das heißt: es rinnt vorüber,
macht uns nicht arm noch reich.
 
Wir spähen scharf und forschen,
wir wanken nicht vom Ort;
darunter rinnen Jahre
und rinnt das Leben fort.
 
Doch wird die Schale sinken
in einer hellen Nacht,
dann kam der Traum ins Träumen,
dann sind wir aufgewacht.

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Confirmed with Nachgelassene Schriften von Walter Calé. Mit einem Vorwort von Fritz Mauthner, herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Arthur Brückmann, Dritte Auflage, Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1910, page 90

Text Authorship:

by Walter Calé (1881 - 1904), no title, appears in Nachgelassene Schriften, in Bilder (1902-1903) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Julius Weismann (1879 - 1950), "Wir sind ganz traumbefangen", op. 81 (Neun Lieder) no. 7 (1917/21) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2016-11-02
Line count: 16
Word count: 75

We are utterly dream‑ entangled

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

We are utterly dream- entangled,
we are from another land,
we hold a scale
in our right hand.
 
We are of very quiet spirit,
the scales hover in equilibrium.
That means: it runs past,
[it] makes us neither poor nor rich.
 
We keep a sharp look-out and seek,
we do not waver from our place;
meanwhile years run on
and life runs onward.
 
But one of the scale-pans shall sink
in a bright night,
then the dream fell into dreaming,
then we shall have woken.

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Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Walter Calé (1881 - 1904), no title, appears in Nachgelassene Schriften, in Bilder (1902-1903)
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This text was added to the website: 2016-11-02
Line count: 16
Word count: 85