Little song for late summer | Make a snatch for the blue butterfly

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by Alfred Fritsch (1884 - 1963)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Spätsommerliedchen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Hasch' nach dem blauen Schmetterling,
Doch tu ihm nichts zu Leide,
Er ist ein ganz zerbrechlich Ding,
Mir dämmert, dass er scheide.

Röslein binde, binde ihm,
Röslein winde, winde ihm,
Kränzlein auf der Heide,
Kränzlein auf der Heide.

Text Authorship:

by Alfred Fritsch (1884 - 1963) [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 Joseph Marx (1882 - 1964), "Spätsommerliedchen", <<1904 [ voice and piano ], unpublished [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Little song for late summer", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2017-02-28
Line count: 8
Word count: 38

Little song for late summer

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Make a snatch for the blue butterfly,
But do not hurt it,
It is an utterly fragile thing,
I am beginning to sense that it is departing.

Little rose, bind, bind for it,
Little rose, twine, twine for it
Little wreaths upon the heath,
Little wreaths upon the heath.

Text Authorship:

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Alfred Fritsch (1884 - 1963)
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This text was added to the website: 2024-08-05
Line count: 8
Word count: 49