I give you back to Fate

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by Karl Stieler (1842 - 1885)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Ich gab dem Schicksal dich zurück

(Sung text for setting by J. Lang)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Ich gab dem Schicksal dich zurück,
Von dem ich dich empfangen habe,
Geliebte! -- Doch du weißt es nicht,
Was ich mit deinem Bild begrabe.

Dafür gibt es kein Menschenwort!
Was aus der Brust mir ward genommen,
Es ist nicht Hoffnung ist nicht Trost,
Denn alles das kann wieder kommen.

Es ist ein Etwas wunderbar,
Das ewig schwindet aus dem Herzen --
Wenn uns die erste Täuschung trifft!
Ein Etwas, das wir nicht verschmerzen,

Das Gott uns in die Wiege legt
Als uns'res Lebens Morgengabe.
Geliebte! -- O du weißt es nicht
Was ich mit deinem Bild begrabe!

Composition:

Josephine Lang

Text Authorship:

by Karl Stieler (1842 - 1885), "Zum Abschied", appears in Hochland-Lieder, in 12. Frau Minne, no. 5

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 98

I give you back to Fate

(Sung text translation for setting by J. Lang)

See original

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

I gave you back to Fate,
Whence I received you,
Beloved! -- yet you do not know
What I bury with your image.

There are no words known to man
To describe what was taken from my breast;
It is not hope, it is not comfort,
For all of that may return.

It is a wondrous thing
That leaves the heart forever --
When we are struck by the first betrayal,
A thing for the loss of which we cannot be consoled,

Something that God places in our cradle
As a dowry for our life!
Beloved, oh you do not know
What I bury with your image!

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Translated titles:
Zum Abschied = At leave-taking
Ich gab dem Schicksal dich zurück = I gave you back to fate

Text Authorship:

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Karl Stieler (1842 - 1885), "Zum Abschied", appears in Hochland-Lieder, in 12. Frau Minne, no. 5
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