Here I peruse your dear letter | Here I peruse your dear letter

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by Gustav Pfleger-Moravský (1833 - 1875)

Translation © by Patrick John Corness

Zde hledím na ten drahý list

Language: Czech (Čeština)

Our translations: ENG

Zde hledím na ten drahý list
Ve knižce uložený,
A Tvého srdce chci zas čísť
Ty sladké pol-ozvěny.

Tu milým slovem povídáš,
Že věčně budeš mojí,
A [až]¹ mě zase uhlídáš,
Že nic nás nerozdvojí!

A my se opět viděli,
Já poznal světa změny;
Mně nezbyl leč list zpuchřelý
Ve knížce uložený.

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Confirmed with Cypřiše. Sbírka básní lyrických a epických od Gustava Pflegera (Moravského), V Praze (Prague) : Nákladem knihkupectvi: I. L. Kober, 1862, page 66.

¹ Dvořák: "že"

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by Gustav Pfleger-Moravský (1833 - 1875), no title, appears in Cypřiše. Sbírka básní lyrických a epických, in 1. Dozvuky lyrické, in 2. Písně, no. 12 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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by Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904), "Zde hledím na ten drahý list", B. 11 no. 12 (1865) [ voice and piano ], from Cypřiše, no. 12 [sung text checked 1 time]

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Word count: 53

Here I peruse your dear letter

Language: English after the Czech (Čeština)

Here I peruse your dear letter,
within a book where it’s kept;
I want to read and remember
soft faint echoes of your heart.

In your kindly words you tell me 
you will be mine for ever,
and that again you will see me,
nought shall drive us asunder;

but when once again we did meet
I found that all was different;
just a withered letter was left
within a book where it’s kept.

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a text in Czech (Čeština) by Gustav Pfleger-Moravský (1833 - 1875), no title, appears in Cypřiše. Sbírka básní lyrických a epických, in 1. Dozvuky lyrické, in 2. Písně, no. 12
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This text was added to the website: 2023-08-18
Line count: 12
Word count: 74