by
Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946)
Untreu
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
Was ich geträumt, und wenn es Wahrheit wär,
dass du gestorben:
ewig lebtest du in mir
und hättest eine süsse Seligkeit erworben . . .
Nun lebst du noch,
und ist ein Frühling um dich her,
und alle Blüten blühen dir . .
Und eine jede sagt dir doch,
dass du gestorben . .
und dass in alle Ewigkeit
nun deines Herzens Seligkeit
verdorrt, verdorben . . .
Confirmed with Sehnen und Suchen, Vierte Auflage, Rostock: C.J.E. Volckmann (Volckman & Wetter), 1905, page 43.
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Unfaithful
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
That which I dreamed and if it were true,
that you had died:
you would live eternally in me
and would have secured a sweet felicity . . .
Now you are still living,
and there is a springtime about you,
and all the blossoms are blooming for you . .
And yet every one of them tells you
that you have died . .
and that for all eternity
the felicity of your heart is now
withered, ruined . . .
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