I no tornarà mai més?

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by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876) and sometimes misattributed to Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger (1810 - 1864)

Translation © by Salvador Pila

Und kommt er nimmermehr?

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Our translations: CAT ENG

   Und kommt er nimmermehr?
    [Und kommt er nimmermehr?]¹
       Er ist todt, o weh!
       In dein Totbett geh',
    Er kommt dir nimmermehr.
    Sein Bart war weiss wie Schnee,
    Sein Haupt wie Flachs dazu.
       Er ist hin, er ist hin,
       Kein Trauern bringt Gewinn:
    Mit seiner Seele Ruh'!
Und mit allen Christenseelen! darum bet' ich! --
Gott sei mit euch!

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• R. Strauss

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Confirmed with Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark, übersetzt von Karl Simrock, in: William Shakspear’s[sic] sämmtliche dramatische Werke in neuen Uebersetzungen, Leipzig: Georg Wigand’s Verlag, [no year], page 687

Note: according to The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss, ed. by Charles Youmans, Seeger is listed as the translator of Hamlet, but Seeger's translations are quite different. Simrock and Seeger are listed together as the translators for the ten-volume set.

¹ omitted by Strauss.

Text Authorship:

by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876), no title, appears in Shakespeare in deutscher Übersetzung, in 6. Hamlet, first published 1868 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
sometimes misattributed to Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger (1810 - 1864)

Based on:

a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , appears in Hamlet and possibly by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Drittes Lied der Ophelia", op. 67 (Sechs Lieder), Heft 1 no. 3 (1918)

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CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 59

I no tornarà mai més?

Language: Catalan (Català) after the German (Deutsch)

I no tornarà mai més?
I no tornarà mai més?
Ell és mort, ai de mi!
Jau al seu llit mortuori,
no tornarà mai més al teu costat.
La seva barba era blanca com la neu,
els seus cabells com el lli,
ens ha deixat, ens ha deixat,
el dol no serveix de res:
pau per a la seva ànima!
I per a totes les ànimes cristianes! Jo prego per això! 
Que Déu sigui amb vosaltres!

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876), no title, appears in Shakespeare in deutscher Übersetzung, in 6. Hamlet, first published 1868 and misattributed to Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger (1810 - 1864)
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , appears in Hamlet and possibly by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2019-11-18
Line count: 12
Word count: 76