Autumn has deceived me

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by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Mich hat der Herbst betrogen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT ENG FRE

Mich hat der Herbst betrogen,
  Dir, Mutter, sei's geklagt:
  Die Schwalb' ist weggezogen,
  Und hat mir's nicht gesagt.
Und hat mir weggenommen
  Das Licht, den Sonnenschein,
  Und wenn sie wiederkommen,
  Werd' ich gestorben sein.

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Confirmed with Friedrich Rückert's gesammelte Poetische Werke in zwölf Bänden, Zweiter Band, Frankfurt am Main: J.D. Sauerländer's Verlag (R. Sauerländer), 1868, page 563.

Note: Some later editions have the title "Winterahnung."

Text Authorship:

by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866), no title, appears in Lyrische Gedichte, in 4. Haus und Jahr, in 6. Sechste Reihe. Herbst, in Herbstlieder, no. 12 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

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Autumn has deceived me

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Autumn has deceived me,
  To you, Mother, I lament it:
  The swallow has flown away,
  And did not tell me of it.
And has taken away from me
  The light, the sunshine,
  And when they return
  I shall have died.

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Translations of title(s):
"Herbstlied" = "Autumnal song"
"Mich hat der Herbst betrogen" = "Autumn has deceived me"
"Winterahnung" = "Premonition of winter"

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866), no title, appears in Lyrische Gedichte, in 4. Haus und Jahr, in 6. Sechste Reihe. Herbst, in Herbstlieder, no. 12
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