When I saw you for the first time | When I saw you for the first time

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by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel (1826 - 1886)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Als ich zum erstenmal dich sah

Language: German (Deutsch)

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Als ich zum erstenmal dich sah,
Es war am sechsten Märze,
Da fuhr ein Blitz aus blauer Luft
Versengend in mein Herze.

Hat All' verbrannt, was drinnen stand,
Es ist mir Nichts geblieben,
Doch epheugleich wächst aus dem Schutt
Der Name meiner Lieben.

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Confirmed with Josef Viktor von Scheffel, Der Trompeter von Säkkingen. Ein Sang vom Oberrhein, zweihundertfünfundvierzigste Auflage, Stuttgart: Verlag von Adolf Bonz & Comp., 1899, page 212.

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by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel (1826 - 1886), no title, appears in Der Trompeter von Säkkingen, in Vierzehntes Stück. Das Büchlein der Lieder, in 1. Lieder jung Werners, no. 2 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

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When I saw you for the first time

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

When I saw you for the first time,
It was on the sixth of March,
A bolt of lightening came out of the blue
Scorchingly into my heart.

It burned everything therein,
Nothing remained to me.
But ivy-like from the rubble grows
The name of my beloved.

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Translated titles:
"Als ich zum erstenmal dich sah" = "When I saw you for the first time"
"Als ich zum erstenmal dich sah, es war am sechsten Märze" = "When I saw you for the first time, it was on the sixth of March"
"Jung Werner's Lied (II)" = "Young Werner's song (II)"

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel (1826 - 1886), no title, appears in Der Trompeter von Säkkingen, in Vierzehntes Stück. Das Büchlein der Lieder, in 1. Lieder jung Werners, no. 2
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This text was added to the website: 2006-11-15
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Word count: 48