Summer night | The trees drip from the downpour of the storm

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by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Sommernacht

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT ENG

Die Bäume tropfen vom Gewitterguß,
Im nassen Laub glänzt Mondlicht kühlvertraut, 
Vom Tal herauf der unsichtbare Fluß
Tönt dunkel her mit ruhelosem Laut. 

Jetzt im Gehöfte schlagen Hunde an --
O Sommernacht und halbverhangene Sterne,
Wie reißt es mir auf eurer bleichen Bahn 
Das Herz hinaus in Reiserausch und Ferne!

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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 250.

Text Authorship:

by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Sommernacht", subtitle: "(1918)", written 1918 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

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Summer night

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

The trees drip from the downpour of the storm,
In the wet foliage the moonlight gleams coolly familiar,
Up from the valley the invisible river
Sounds darkly hither with a restless sound.

Now in the grange dogs begin to bark –
Oh summer night and half-veiled stars,
How my heart is wrenched upon your pale pathway
In the intoxication of travel and distance!

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