Why do you weep, floweret

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by Hermann Rollett (1819 - 1904)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Was weinst du, Blümlein

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG ENG FRE SPA

Was weinst du, Blümlein,
   Im Morgenschein?
Das Blümlein lachte --:
   Was fällt dir ein!
 
Ich bin ja fröhlich,
   Ich weine nicht, --
Die Freudenthräne
   Durch's Aug' mir bricht! --
 
Ich frug das Bächlein:
   Was rinnst du dahin
Wie ein Thränenstrom
   Durch's Wiesengrün?
 
Da klang es heraus
   Aus der Wellenbrust:
Mein Strömen ist Freude,
   Ist Brausen der Lust! --
 
Du Morgenhimmel!
   Bist blutig roth,
Als läg' deine Sonne
   Im Meere todt?
 
Da lacht der Himmel
   Und ruft mich an:
Ich streue ja Rosen
   Auf ihre Bahn! --
 
Und strahlend flammte
   Die Sonne hervor,
Die Blumen blühten
   Freudig empor.
 
Des Baches Wellen
   Jauchzten auf,
Und die Sonne lachte
   Flammend drauf!

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Confirmed with Hermann Rollett, Jucunde, Leipzig: Verlag von Otto Wigand, 1853, pages 18-20. In this edition it has no title; a later edition titled Ausgewählte Gedichte adds the title "Stille Freude".

Text Authorship:

by Hermann Rollett (1819 - 1904), "Stille Freude" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Why do you weep, floweret

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Why do you weep, floweret,
   In the glow of morning?
The floweret laughed --:
   What a notion!
 
For I am happy,
   I do not weep, --
A tear of joy
   Falls from my eye! --
 
I asked the brooklet:
   Why do you run onward
Like a river of tears
   Through the green of the meadow?
 
Then it sounded forth
   From the bosom of the waves:
My flowing is joy,
   Is the rush of pleasure! --
 
You morning sky!
   You are blood red,
As if your sun
   Lay dead in the sea?
 
At that the sky laughed
   And called out to me:
I am only strewing roses
   Upon her pathway! --
 
And radiantly flaming
   The sun appeared,
The flowers burgeoned
   Joyfully.
 
The waves of the brook
   Rejoiced,
And the sun laughed
   Flamingly down upon them!

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Translated titles:
"Stille Freude" = "Quiet Happiness"
"Stille Liebe" = "Quiet Love"
"Was weinst du, Blümlein" = "Why do you weep, floweret"

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