O mother, the young Prince is to pass by...
Language: English after the Bangla (Bengali)
O mother, the young Prince is to pass by our door, --
how can I attend to my work this morning?
Show me how to braid up my hair;
tell me what garment to put on.
Why do you look at me amazed, mother?
I know well he will not glance up once at my window;
I know he will pass out of my sight in the twinkling of an eye;
only the vanishing strain of the flute
will come sobbing to me from afar.
But the young Prince will pass by our door,
and I will put on my best for the moment.
O mother, the young Prince did pass by our door,
and the morning sun flashed from his chariot.
I swept aside the veil from my face,
I tore the ruby chain from my neck
and flung it in his path.
Why do you look at me amazed, mother?
I know well he did not pick up my chain;
I know it was crushed under his wheels
leaving a red stain upon the dust,
and no one knows what my gift was nor to whom.
But the young Prince did pass by our door,
and I flung the jewel from my breast before his path.
Translation(s): FRE GER GER ITA POL SPA
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
Settings in other languages or adaptations:
- Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ENG GER FRE POL GER SPA by Franco Alfano.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Jan Śliwiński (1884 - 1950) , under the pseudonym Hans Effenberger, from Der Gärtner, no. 7, published 1916 ENG ITA FRE POL SPA by Alexander Zemlinsky, Karol Maciej Szymanowski, Karol Maciej Szymanowski, Willem de Haan.
- Also set in Polish (Polski), a translation by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz (1894 - 1980) ENG ITA GER FRE GER SPA by Karol Maciej Szymanowski, Karol Maciej Szymanowski.
- Also set in Spanish (Español), a translation by Zenobia Camprubí Aymar (c1887 - 1956) , from Obras de Rabindranath Tagore: El jardinero, published 1917 ENG ITA GER FRE POL GER by Juan José Castro.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ENG ITA FRE POL SPA by Jan Pieter Hendrik van Gilse.
Other available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable): - FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Ô mère, le jeune Prince doit passer", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Text added to the website: 2010-11-05.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:02:02
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