Over Carthage’s battlefields | Over Carthage’s battlefields

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by (Johann) Gottfried Kinkel (1815 - 1882)

Translation © by Anja Bunzel

Durch Carthages Trümmerhallen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Durch Carthago’s Trümmerhallen
Suchend bin ich umgeschweift;
Wo in heissem Mittagwallen
Voll die gold’ne Ernte reift.
Und ich sah wie bunt zum Kranze
Meer und Erde sich verflicht
Unter klarem Himmelsglanze
Aber ach, ihn fand ich nicht.

Durch Egyptens reiche Fluren
Zog ich an dem Pilgerstab;
Alter Grösse heil’ge Spuren 
Trägt manch prächtig Königsgrab.
Auf den Pyramiden leuchtet 
Unbewölkt der Sonne Licht,
Weit der Strom das Land befeuchtet
Aber ach, ihn fand ich nicht!

Canaan! zu süsser Labe 
Deinen Grund betrat ich nun,
Wo an des Erlösers Grabe
Alle Erdensorgen ruhn.
Gläubig bin ich hingesunken
Auf mein flammend Angesicht,
Himmelslust hab’ ich getrunken
Aber ach, ihn fand ich nicht!

Text Authorship:

by (Johann) Gottfried Kinkel (1815 - 1882) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Johanna Kinkel (1810 - 1858), "Durch Carthages Trümmerhallen", op. 19 (Sechs Lieder) no. 2, published 1848 [ alto or baritone and piano ], Cöln, Schloss [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Anja Bunzel) , "Over Carthage’s battlefields", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Anja Bunzel

This text was added to the website: 2014-07-25
Line count: 24
Word count: 109

Over Carthage’s battlefields

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Over Carthage’s battlefields
I rambled searching;
Where the golden corn
Ripens in the hot midday’s sun.
I saw how sea and earth
Merge to a colourful collar,
Beneath the clear sky
But ach, I did not find him. 

I pilgrimaged through
Egypt’s rich landscape;
Some glorious tombs
Host the sacred traces of old heroes.
The sunlight shines
On the pyramids,
The river waters the land
But ach, I did not find him!

Cannan! I entered your ground
For the sake of a sweet balm,
Where all sorrows rest
At the savior’s tomb.
I kneeled down onto
My flaming face,
I felt relief
But ach, I did not find him!

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This text was added to the website: 2014-07-25
Line count: 24
Word count: 109