English translation of Traumdeutung

by Johanna Kinkel (1810 - 1858), "Traumdeutung", op. 10 (Sechs Lieder) no. 5, published 1839, note: the text consists of stanza 1 of "Als ich auf dem Euphrat schiffte" followed by the first two stanzas of "Dies zu deuten bin erbötig!"

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Hatem
 Dies zu deuten bin erbötig!
 Hab ich dir nicht oft erzählt,
 Wie der Doge von Venedig
 Mit dem Meere sich vermählt?

 So von deinen Fingergliedern 
 Fiel der Ring dem Euphrat zu.
 Ach, zu tausend [Himmelsliedern]1,
 Süßer Traum, begeisterst du!

 Mich, der von des Indostanen
 Streifte bis Damaskus hin, 
 Um mit neuen Karawanen
 Bis ans rote Meer zu ziehn,

 Mich vermählst du deinem Fluße,
 Der Terrasse diesem Hain:
 Hier soll bis zum letzten Kuße
 Dir mein Geist gewidmet sein.

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Suleika:
 Als ich auf dem Euphrat schiffte,
 Streifte sich der goldne Ring 
 Finger ab, in Wasserklüfte,
 Den ich jüngst von dir empfing.
 
 Also träumt ich. Morgenröte
 Blitzt' ins Auge durch den Baum,
 Sag, Poete, sag, Prophete!
 Was bedeutet dieser Traum?

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Author(s): Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), Marianne von Willemer (1784 - 1860)
 Hatem:
 I am willing to interpret this!
 Have I not often recounted the story
 of how the Doge of Venice
 married the sea?
 
 It was this way that your fingers
 let the ring fall into the Euphrates.
 Ah, to a thousand flowery songs
 you inspire me, sweet dream!
 
 I, who have been everywhere from the Indies
 to Damascus,
 and come with new caravans
 all the way to the Red Sea:
 
 You have married me to your river,
 to the terrace of this grove;
 here I shall, until the last kiss,
 dedicate my soul.

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Suleika:
 When I was sailing on the Euphrates,
 the golden ring slid off 
 my finger into the watery abyss -
 the ring that I received from you recently.
 
 Thus I dreamed. The red dawn
 blazed into my eyes down through the trees;
 tell me, poet, tell me, prophet!
 What does this dream mean?

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  • Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust

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