From another world | The flowers must

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by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Die Blumen müssen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT ENG

Die Blumen müssen
Alle verdorren,
Wenn der Nebel kommt,
Und die Menschen
Müssen sterben,
Man legt sie ins Grab.
Auch die Menschen sind Blumen,
Sie kommen alle wieder,
Wenn ihr Frühling ist.
Dann sind sie nimmer krank,
Und alles wird verziehen.

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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 3 Die Romane, Knulp, Drei Geschichten aus dem Leben Knulps, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2001, page 204.

Text Authorship:

by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), no title, written <<1914, appears in Knulp - Drei Geschichten aus dem Leben Knulps, in 3. Das Ende, first published 1915 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Georg Luckner , "Aus and'rer Welt" [ voice and orchestra ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "D’un altre món", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "From another world", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2014-09-25
Line count: 11
Word count: 41

From another world

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

The flowers must
All wither
When the fog comes,
And humans
Must die,
They are laid in the grave.
Humans, too, are flowers,
They all return
When it is their springtime.
Then they shall never be ill,
And everything shall be forgiven.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), no title, written <<1914, appears in Knulp - Drei Geschichten aus dem Leben Knulps, in 3. Das Ende, first published 1915
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This text was added to the website: 2014-09-25
Line count: 11
Word count: 42