Sunny days | I do not know how it shall all turn out

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by Bruno Heinrich Eelbo (1853 - 1917)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Ich weiß nicht, was noch werden soll

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Ich weiß nicht, was noch werden soll
Und kann es nimmer tragen:
Mir ist das Herz so übervoll,
Ich muß es singen und sagen.

Der junge Lenz hat lind und sacht
Vom Wald Besitz genommen --
Mir unbewußt, wohl über Nacht,
Ist mir die Liebe gekommen.

Im Garten singt die Nachtigall,
Es blüht der blaue Flieder --
Mein Sinnen und mein Denken all
Kehrt stets zur Einzigen wieder.

Und wo ich immer träumend steh',
Wohin die Schritte sich lenken:
Im dunklen Wald, am blauen See
Muß immer Dein gedenken. --

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Confirmed with Bruno Eelbo, Sonnige Tage: Lieder aus einem alten Skizzenbuche, Leipzig, Verlag von H. Haessel, 1888, pages 8-9.

Text Authorship:

by Bruno Heinrich Eelbo (1853 - 1917), no title, appears in Sonnige Tage: Lieder aus einem alten Skizzenbuche, in Lieder [I], no. 1 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Sunny days

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

I do not know how it shall all turn out
And can never bear it:
My heart is so overfull,
I must sing it and tell of it.

The young springtime has, gently and softly,
Taken possession of the forest --
Without my knowing, likely overnight,
Love has come to me.

The nightingale sings in the garden,
The blue lilac is blooming --
All my musing and my thinking
Ever returns to her, the One.

And wherever I stand dreaming,
Wherever my steps turn:
In the dark woods, beside the blue lake
I must always think of you. --

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Bruno Heinrich Eelbo (1853 - 1917), no title, appears in Sonnige Tage: Lieder aus einem alten Skizzenbuche, in Lieder [I], no. 1
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This text was added to the website: 2018-08-08
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