Encased in purest gold | Encased in purest gold, I faithfully keep

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by Felix Kunde

Translation © by Sharon Krebs, Harald Krebs

Im reinsten Gold ich treu bewahr

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Im reinsten Gold ich treu bewahr'
Vom Liebchen hold das seid'ne Haar!
Wir haben beid' sie einst geküsst,
Die Seligkeit so bald gebüsst!
Nun teilen wir ein gleich Geschick,
Getrennt von ihr, getrennt vom Glück!

Text Authorship:

by Felix Kunde [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 Josephine Lang (1815 - 1880), "Im reinsten Gold ich treu bewahr", op. 34[35] (Zwei Lieder) no. 1 (1864), published 1865 [ voice and piano ], Stuttgart: Eduard Ebner [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Sharon Krebs) (Harald Krebs) , "Encased in purest gold", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2006-11-13
Line count: 6
Word count: 35

Encased in purest gold

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Encased in purest gold, I faithfully keep
The silken hair of my beloved!
Both of us [the poet and the lock of hair] once kissed her,
And all too quickly paid for this bliss!
Now we share the same fate,
Severed from her, severed from joy!

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Felix Kunde
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This text was added to the website: 2006-11-13
Line count: 6
Word count: 46