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Translations available for the entire opus: ENG 

2. Die Lehre  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: German (Deutsch) 
  [Mutter]1 zum Bienelein:
"Hüt dich vor Kerzenschein!"
Doch was die Mutter spricht,
Bienelein achtet nicht;

  Schwirret ums Licht herum,
Schwirret mit Sum-sum-sum,
Hört nicht die Mutter schrein:
"Bienelein! Bienelein!"

  Junges Blut, tolles Blut,
Treibt in die Flammengluth,
Treibt in die Flamm' hinein, --
"Bienelein! Bienelein!"

  'S flackert nun lichterroth,
Flamme gab Flammentod. --
"Hüt dich vor Mägdelein,
Söhnelein! Söhnelein!"

Text Authorship:

  • by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), "Die Lehre", appears in Nachgelesene Gedichte 1812-1827, no. 59

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

  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (August Matthijs) , "Vermaning"
  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Confirmed with Selections from Heine's Poems, ed by Horatio Stevens White, Boston, Heath & Co., 1907, page 65.

1 Trenkler: "Mutter sprach warnend"; further changes may exist not shown above.

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