Least Bee

Song Cycle by Stefano Gervasoni (b. 1962)

Translated to:

German (Deutsch) — Die kleinste Biene (Bertram Kottmann)

1. 1074
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Count not that far that can be had,
Though sunset lie between --
Nor that adjacent, that beside,
Is further than the sun.

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  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

1074 (Franklin 1124)
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2. 1766
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Those final Creatures, -- who they are --
That, faithful to the close,
Administer her ecstasy,
But just the Summer knows.

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  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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3. 1602
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Pursuing you in your transitions,
In other Motes --
Of other Myths
Your requisition be.
The Prism never held the Hues,
It only heard them play --

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  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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4. 676
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Least Bee that brew --
A Honey's Weight
The Summer multiply --
Content Her smallest fraction help
The Amber Quantity --

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  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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5. 1155
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Distance -- is not the Realm of Fox
Nor by Relay of Bird
Abated -- Distance is
Until thyself, Beloved.

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  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Total word count: 102