A dark hour | The dream is over, my happiness is lost!

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by Eligius Franz Joseph, Freiherr von Münch-Bellinghausen (1806 - 1871), as Friedrich Halm

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Eine dunkle Stunde

(Sung text for setting by H. Marschner)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Der Traum ist aus, mein Glück dahin! --
Wenn's auch dein Mund nicht spricht,
Ich fühl', daß ich dir nichts mehr bin,
Verhehl' es, läugn' es nicht!

Schlang meine Lieb' einst weich und warm
Ein Mantel um dich sich her,
Beengt nun fühlst du Hand und Arm,
Nun wärmt er dich nicht mehr.

 ... 

Ein Becher schien dir einst mein Herz,
Nun du an seinem Rand
Du dich berauscht in Lust und Schmerz,
Entsinkt es deiner Hand.

O laß es fallen! Wenn's auch birst,
Betrüb' dich nicht zu sehr,
Für einen Freund, den du verlierst,
Bewacht dich ein Schutzgeist mehr!

Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-2,4-5 of the original text.

Confirmed Gedichte von Friedrich Halm, Stuttgart und Tübingen: J.G. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1850, pages 176-177. Note: modernized spelling would require changing "läugn'" to "leugn'", etc.

Composition:

Heinrich August Marschner

Text Authorship:

by Eligius Franz Joseph, Freiherr von Münch-Bellinghausen (1806 - 1871), as Friedrich Halm, "Eine dunkle Stunde"

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ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "A dark hour", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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A dark hour

(Sung text translation for setting by H. Marschner)

See original

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

The dream is over, my happiness is lost! --
Even if your lips do not speak it,
I feel that I no longer mean anything to you,
Conceal it not, deny it not!

If my love once softly and warm wrapped
Itself about you like a cloak,
You now feel your hand and arm restricted by it,
The cloak no longer warms you.

 ... 

Once my heart seemed to you a goblet;
Now that at its rim
You have intoxicated yourself in joy and sorrow,
It falls from your hand.

Oh let it fall!  Even if it shatters,
Do not be all too saddened,
In exchange for the friend whom you lose,
You shall be watched over by one more guardian angel.

Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-2,4-5 of the original text.

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