Unfaithful | That which I dreamed and if it were true

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by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Untreu

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Was ich geträumt, und wenn es Wahrheit wär, 
      dass du gestorben: 
      ewig lebtest du in mir 
   und hättest eine süsse Seligkeit erworben . . .

      Nun lebst du noch, 
   und ist ein Frühling um dich her,
   und alle Blüten blühen dir . .

   Und eine jede sagt dir doch, 
      dass du gestorben . .
   und dass in alle Ewigkeit
   nun deines Herzens Seligkeit
      verdorrt, verdorben . . .

Confirmed with Sehnen und Suchen, Vierte Auflage, Rostock: C.J.E. Volckmann (Volckman & Wetter), 1905, page 43.

Text Authorship:

by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "Untreu", appears in Sehnen und Suchen: Gedichte, in Im Lande der Liebe, in Von Der und Jener [author's text checked 1 time 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 Adolf Wallnöfer (1854 - 1946), "Untreu", op. 92 (Vier Gesänge) no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Unfaithful", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2023-02-24
Line count: 12
Word count: 68

Unfaithful

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

That which I dreamed and if it were true,
      that you had died:
      you would live eternally in me
   and would have secured a sweet felicity . . .

      Now you are still living,
   and there is a springtime about you,
   and all the blossoms are blooming for you . . 

   And yet every one of them tells you
      that you have died . . 
   and that for all eternity
   the felicity of your heart is now
      withered, ruined . . .

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "Untreu", appears in Sehnen und Suchen: Gedichte, in Im Lande der Liebe, in Von Der und Jener
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This text was added to the website: 2024-03-13
Line count: 12
Word count: 82