The roads that I wander

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by Justinus (Andreas Christian) Kerner (1786 - 1862)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Wandrer

(Sung text for setting by R. Leberl)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: DUT ENG ENG FRE

Die Straßen, die ich gehe,
So oft ich um mich sehe,
Sie bleiben fremd doch mir.
Die Herberg, wo ich möcht' weilen,
Ich kann sie nicht ereilen,
weit ist sie von hier.

So fremd mir anzuschauen
Sind diese Städt' und Auen,
Die Burgen stumm und tot!
Doch fern Gebirge ragen,
Die meine Heimat tragen,
Ein ewig Morgenrot.

Note: also published without a title in chapter 14 of Die Heimatlosen

Composition:

Rudolf Leberl

Text Authorship:

by Justinus (Andreas Christian) Kerner (1786 - 1862), "Wanderer", appears in Gedichte, in Die lyrischen Gedichte, first published 1813

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

DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (David Kenneth Smith) , "The roadways which I wander", copyright © 1996, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Voyageur", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Wanderer

(Sung text translation for setting by R. Leberl)

See original

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

The roads that I wander,
Whenever I cast my eyes about,
They nevertheless remain unfamiliar to me.
The shelter where I might tarry,
I cannot reach it no matter how much I hasten;
It is far from here.

These cities and fields
Look so foreign to me,
The castles mute and dead!
But far away, mountains loom,
Mountains that bear my homeland,
An eternal sunrise.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Justinus (Andreas Christian) Kerner (1786 - 1862), "Wanderer", appears in Gedichte, in Die lyrischen Gedichte, first published 1813
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Word count: 67