Song of Autumn | Heart, now so old and still so forlorn

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by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866)

Translation © by Walter A. Aue

Herbsthauch

(Sung text for setting by H. Pfitzner)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG ENG FRE

Herz, nun so alt und noch immer nicht klug,
Hoffst du von Tagen zu Tagen,
Was dir der blühende Frühling nicht trug
Werde der Herbst dir noch tragen?

Läßt doch der spielende Wind nicht vom Strauch
Immer zu schmeicheln, zu kosen,
Rosen entfaltet am Morgen sein Hauch,
Abends zerstreut er die Rosen.

Läßt doch der spielende Wind nicht vom Strauch,
bis er ihn völlig gelichtet.
Alles, o Herz, ist ein Wind und ein Hauch,
Was wir geliebt und gedichtet.

Composition:

Hans Erich Pfitzner

Text Authorship:

by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866), "Herbsthauch", appears in Lyrische Gedichte, in 4. Haus und Jahr, in 6. Sechste Reihe. Herbst, in Herbstlieder, no. 10

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ENG English (Jakob Kellner) , "Breeze of Autumn", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English [singable] (Walter A. Aue) , "Song of Autumn", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Vent d'automne", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Jakob Kellner

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 80

Song of Autumn

(Sung text translation for setting by H. Pfitzner)

See original

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Heart, now so old and still so forlorn,
day after day you are sighing:
hoping, what blossoming spring has not borne,
autumn might still be supplying.

Winds let not go of the bush in their play,
fondling, cajoling, caressing:
opening rosebuds at dawning of day,
evening the roses undressing.

Winds let not go of the bush in their play,
stripping and baring and shoving.
Everything, Heart, will the winds blow away:
all our writing and loving.

Text Authorship:

Singable translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2010 by Walter A. Aue, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866), "Herbsthauch", appears in Lyrische Gedichte, in 4. Haus und Jahr, in 6. Sechste Reihe. Herbst, in Herbstlieder, no. 10
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