Das Mädchen im Garten
Language: German (Deutsch)
Heut ist es ein Jahr, daß er grüßend dort
An der Hecke stand,
Und ich, wie jetzt, in der Laube hier
Ein Sträußlein band.
Noch immer, immer klingt mir im Ohr
Seine Stimme so süß:
"Ein Blümlein könnte mir bringen von dir
Ein Paradies!"
Was war ich damals, o damals doch
Für ein albernes Ding,
Daß ich ihm nicht gab, woran so sehr
Sein Herze hing!
Ach! käm' er noch einmal, noch einmal dort
Aus dem Walde heraus,
Ich wollt ihm ja geben so gern, so gern
Den ganzen Strauß!
Confirmed with Gedichte von Karl Christian Tenner, Darmstadt: Eduard Zernin, 1870, page 116.
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The girl in the garden
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
Today it is a year ago since he stood
At the hedge greeting me,
And I, as now, in this arbour here
Twined a nosegay.
Still, still in my ears there sounds
His voice so sweetly:
"A little flower from you could bring to me
A paradise!"
Then, oh then, what
A foolish thing I was
That I did not give him that upon which
His heart was set!
Ah! if he came once more, once more yonder
From out of the woods,
I would give him so gladly, so gladly
The entire nosegay!
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