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Die kleinste Biene
Translations © by Bertram Kottmann
Song Cycle by Stefano Gervasoni (b. 1962)
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Count not that far that can be had, Though sunset lie between -- Nor that adjacent, that beside, Is further than the sun.
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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
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1074 (Franklin 1124)Sieh Mögliches als nicht so fern, obwohl es morgen ist noch das, was nah als nebenan, obwohl’s hinter der Sonn.
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Those final Creatures, -- who they are -- That, faithful to the close, Administer her ecstasy, But just the Summer knows.
Die Letzten, wer’s auch immer ist, die treulich bis zum End den Sommer zur Ekstase führ’n, allein der Sommer kennt.
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Pursuing you in your transitions, In other Motes -- Of other Myths Your requisition be. The Prism never held the Hues, It only heard them play --
Ich folge dir in deinen Stufen, anderer Stäubchen, anderer Mythen wirst du nun bedürfen. Das Prisma hat die Farben nie gehalten, hat nur ihr Spiel gehört.
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Least Bee that brew -- A Honey's Weight The Summer multiply -- Content Her smallest fraction help The Amber Quantity --
Der kleinsten Biene Honigtracht vervielfacht Sommers Zeit - froh ist sie, dass selbst kleinste Fracht zur gold’nen Ernt’ trägt bei.
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Distance -- is not the Realm of Fox Nor by Relay of Bird Abated -- Distance is Until thyself, Beloved.
Ferne - schafft nicht das Fuchsrevier, auch durch der Brieftaub’ Flug nicht näher - Ferne ist so weit, bis zu dir selbst, mein Lieb.
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