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Mich hat der Herbst betrogen, Dir, Mutter, sei's geklagt: Die Schwalb' ist fortgezogen, Und hat mir's nicht gesagt. Und hat mit weggenommen Das Licht, den Sonnenschein, Und wenn sie wiederkommen, Werd' ich gestorben sein.
Note: Some later editions have the title "Winterahnung."
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Autumn has deceived me, To you, Mother, I lament it: The swallow has flown away, And did not tell me of it. And has taken away with it The light, the sunshine, And when they return I shall have died.
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