English translations of Zwei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, opus 2

by Paul Samuel (b. 1868)

1. Auf dem Rhein  [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul Samuel (b. 1868), "Auf dem Rhein", op. 2 (Zwei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1895 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Auf deinem Grunde haben
Sie an verborgnem Ort
Den goldnen Schatz begraben,
Der Nibelungen Hort.

Ihn wahren deine Wellen
Bis an den Jüngsten Tag,
Zu der geheimen Stellen
Kein Räuber dringen mag.

Mir ward ins Herz gesenket
Ein Schatz, gleich wie dem Rhein,
Er ist darin ertränket,
Wird ewig drinnen sein.

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by Karl Leberecht Immermann (1796 - 1840)
1. On the Rhine
Language: English 
 In your depths you have buried
 in a secret place
 the golden treasure -
 the hoard of the Nibelungen.
 
 Your waves preserve it
 until the Day of Judgment;
 to that secret place
 no robber may penetrate.
 
 I have also sunk into my heart
 a treasure, just as in the Rhine:
 it has drowned in there
 and will remain there forever.

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2. Jägers Abendlied  [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul Samuel (b. 1868), "Jägers Abendlied", op. 2 (Zwei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1895 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Im [Felde]1 [schleich']2 ich still und wild,
Gespannt mein Feuerrohr.
Da schwebt so licht dein liebes Bild
Dein süßes Bild mir vor.

Du wandelst jetzt wohl still und mild
[Durch Feld und liebes Thal]3,
Und ach mein schnell verrauschend Bild
Stellt [sich dir's]4 nicht einmal?

Des Menschen, der die Welt durchstreift
Voll Unmuth und Verdruß,
Nach Osten und nach Westen schweift,
Weil er dich lassen muß.

Mir ist es, denk' ich nur an dich,
Als in den Mond zu sehn;
Ein stiller Friede kommt auf mich,
Weiß nicht wie mir geschehn.

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Confirmed with Goethe's Werke, Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand, Erster Band, Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J.G.Cottaschen Buchhandlung, 1827, page 110.

Note: the poem was published first anonymously in Christoph Martin Wieland's Der Teutsche Merkur vom Jahr 1776. Erstes Vierteljahr. Weimar, pages 8-9, with the title Jägers Nachtlied, see below.

1 Franke, Weber: "Walde"; further changes may exist not shown above
2 Andersch: "schweif'" ; Gompertz: "streich'" ; further changes may exist not shown above.
3 Dalberg: "Durchs Feld und liebe Thal"
4 Hensel: "sich's dir"

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
2. In the fields/forests I creep, silent and wild
Language: English 
 In the fields I creep, silent and wild,
 my gun cocked.
 There floats so lightly your dear image,
 your sweet image before me.
 
 You wander now so mute and gentle
 through field and dear valley;
 and ah! my swiftly passing image,
 does it not once appear before you?
 
 ...the image of a man who prowls through the world,
 full of indignance and annoyance,
 wandering from east to west
 because he must leave you?
 
 If I only think of you, it seems to me
 that I'm looking at the moon:
 a still peace comes over me,
 and I do not know how it happens.

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