Insight | Like a dream

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by Benno Geiger (1882 - 1965)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Einsicht

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Wie ein Traum
sind die Jahre dahin
meines lachenden Knabenalters,
wie der Flaum
und das Ultramarin
eines flatternden Tagesfalters.

Und ich war
doch ein munteres Kind,
voller lebhaften Phantasien,
welche klar
ihren Wunsch in den Wind
einer schwankenden Zukunft schrieen.

Wie der Schaum,
der im Sande zerrann,
ist der Leichtsinn leider zerronnen,
nun ich kaum
mich beschuldigen kann,
daß ich jemals zu lachen begonnen!

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Text Authorship:

by Benno Geiger (1882 - 1965) [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 Ella Georgiyevna Adayevskaya (1846 - 1926), "Einsicht", published 1912 [ voice and piano ], from 24 Präludien für Singstimme und Klavier, no. 23, Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Insight", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2011-08-03
Line count: 18
Word count: 64

Insight

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Like a dream
The years have passed,
[The years] of my laughing boyhood,
Like the down
And ultramarine
Of a fluttering butterfly.
 
And yet
I was a merry child,
Full of lively fantasies,
Which clearly
Screamed their desire
Into the wind of an uncertain future.
 
Like the foam
That dissipated into the sand,
My levity has unfortunately dissipated,
Now that I can hardly
Reproach myself
For ever beginning to laugh!

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This text was added to the website: 2015-12-08
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Word count: 70