To Sami | When recently Sami and you picked flowers in the garden

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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Translation © by John H. Campbell, W. Kommer

Der Bienenstich

(Sung text for setting by J. Sterkel)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Als ich, Sami, mit dir jüngst Blumen brach in dem Garten,
Stach mich ein Bienchen, und heiß schmerzte die blutende Hand.
Weise rieth'st du mir mit Erde zu kühlen die Wunde,
Und der brennende Schmerz schwand, und die Wunde ward heil.
Sami, wird auch die Wunde, die in dem Herzen ihm blutet,
Dann erst gekühlet und heil, wenn sie die Erde bedeckt?

Note: see also the extremely similar poem by Justus Friedrich Zehelein titled Der Bienenstich.

Composition:

Johann Xaver Sterkel

Text Authorship:

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "An Sami", subtitle: "Indisches Gedicht"

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To Sami

(Sung text translation for setting by J. Sterkel)

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

 When recently Sami and you picked flowers in the garden, 
 a bee stung him, and hotly the bleeding hand ached. 
 Wisely, you did advise him, to cool the wound with earth, 
 and the burning pain dwindled, and the wound was healed.
 Sami! Sami, will also the bleeding wound of the heart,
 then first be cooled and healed, when it is covered with earth?

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 64