Sung into the wind | When I, lowered to her breasts

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by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928), as Jucundus Fröhlich Klabund

Translation © by John Glenn Paton

In den Wind gesungen

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Chinese (中文)

Our translations: ENG

Wenn ich an ihren [Brüsten]¹ hingesunken,
den heiligsten der Tränke tief getrunken:
Komm, Drache Tod, lass mit dem letzten Hauch
uns in die Luft vergeh’n wie blauer Rauch.
Und lass uns noch nach hunderttausend Jahren
vereint als Sturmwind durch die Lüfte fahren.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• R. Liebermann

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¹ Liebermann: "an deinem Munde"

Text Authorship:

by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928), as Jucundus Fröhlich Klabund, "In den Wind gesungen" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Chinese (中文) by Li Hongzhang (1823 - 1901) [text unavailable]
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Rolf Liebermann (1910 - 1999), "In den Wind gesungen", 1945, from Chinesische Liebeslieder, no. 3. [ sung text verified 1 time]

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

ENG English (John Glenn Paton) , "Sung into the wind", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: John Glenn Paton [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-02-26
Line count: 6
Word count: 43

Sung into the wind

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

When I, lowered to her [breasts]¹,
have drunk deeply of the holiest of drinks:
Come, Dragon Death!  With our last breath
let us blow away in the air like blue smoke.
And let us still after a hundred thousand years
fly together through the air as a storm wind.

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¹ Liebermann: "mouth"

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928), as Jucundus Fröhlich Klabund, "In den Wind gesungen"
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in Chinese (中文) by Li Hongzhang (1823 - 1901) [text unavailable]
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2018-02-26
Line count: 6
Word count: 51