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Mich hat der Herbst betrogen, Dir, Mutter, sei's geklagt: Die Schwalb' ist weggezogen, Und hat mir's nicht gesagt. Und hat mir weggenommen Das Licht, den Sonnenschein, Und wenn sie wiederkommen, Werd' ich gestorben sein.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Friedrich Rückert's gesammelte Poetische Werke in zwölf Bänden, Zweiter Band, Frankfurt am Main: J.D. Sauerländer's Verlag (R. Sauerländer), 1868, page 563.
Note: Some later editions have the title "Winterahnung."
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Autumn has deceived me, To you, Mother, I lament it: The swallow has flown away, And did not tell me of it. And has taken away from me The light, the sunshine, And when they return I shall have died.
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View text with all available footnotesTranslations of title(s):
"Herbstlied" = "Autumnal song"
"Mich hat der Herbst betrogen" = "Autumn has deceived me"
"Winterahnung" = "Premonition of winter"
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This text was added to the website: 2024-05-08
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