Gab den Ring das Mädchen

Gab den Ring das Mädchen,
Ihn zurück dem Jüngling:
"Nimm den Ring zurücke,
Hassen Dich die Meinen,
Vater Dich und Mutter,
Bruder Dich und Schwester!
Doch nicht wolle, Knabe
Uebles von mir reden!
Bin ich doch, ich Arme!
Ein unselig Mädchen!
Säete Basilikum,
Wermuth ist ersprossen.
Wermuth, Wermuthskräutlein,
O Du bittre Blüthe!
Mögest Du nun schmücken.
Meine Hochzeitgäste,
Wenn sie -- o Unsel'ge!
Mich zu Grabe tragen!"

Translation(s): ENG

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Authorship

• by Therese Albertine Luise von Jacob (1797 - 1870), as Talvj, "Die unglückliche Braut", appears in Volkslieder der Serben, volume 2, first published 1835 [an adaptation] [ author's text checked 1 time]

• a text in Serbian (Српски) from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , "Несрвћна дјевојка", appears in Српске народне пјесме - скупио ис и на свијет издао Вук Стеф. Караџић (Srpske narodne pjesme), pp. 438-9, Poem 609
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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)

• by Julius Hermann Krigar (1819 - 1880), "Wermuth", op. 35 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 6, published 1875 [voice and piano], Berlin, Bote & Bock [
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , title 1: "The unhappy bride", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Text added to the website: 2012-03-24.
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