Language: German (Deutsch)
Auf dem Wege vom Tanzsaal nach Haus
Ruht sich auf dem Steine aus
Die hübsche Margreth.
Sie öffnet ein wenig das stramme Mieder,
Daß kühl über die weißen Glieder
Der Nachtwind weht.
Desselben Weges kommt auch der Junker,
Mit Troddeln am Hut und vielem Geflunker,
Und sieht den Stein,
Und auf dem Stein das hübsche Kind;
Und wie der Blitz geschwind
Fällt ihm was ein.
Das liebe Mädchen hatte geschlafen,
Doch als sie des Junkers Augen trafen,
Ist sie erwacht.
Erst schreit sie und will feldein;
Ich denke, wir lassen die beiden allein
In der Sommernacht.
Composition:
Set to music by Hans Erich Pfitzner (1869 - 1949), "Müde", op. 10 no. 2 (1896), published 1900 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, M. Brockhaus
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- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Weary", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 103
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
On the way home from the dance hall
The lovely Margret
Rests upon the stone.
She loosens her tight bodice a little
So that the cool night-wind may
Waft over her white limbs.
Along the same road comes as well a young squire
With baubles on his hat and many fibs,
And sees the stone,
And upon the stone, the the pretty child;
And as rapid as lightning
Something comes to his mind.
The dear maiden had been sleeping,
But as the squire's eyes fell upon her,
She awoke.
At first she screams and wants to run off over the fields;
I think we shall leave the two of them alone
In the summer night.
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