Unten bei den Salley-Gärten traf ich mich mit meiner Geliebten

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by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Down by the Salley Gardens

(Sung text for setting by I. Gurney)

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Language: English

Our translations: CAT DUT FRE FRI FRI GER

Down by the Salley Gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the Salley Gardens with little snow-white feet.
She bid me take life easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.

In a field by the river my love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.

Retitled "Down by the Salley Gardens" with the subtitle "An old song re-sung" when republished in Poems in 1895.

Note: "salley" is an anglicized form of the Irish word "saileach", which means willow.

Composition:

Ivor (Bertie) Gurney

A First Volume of Ten Songs

Text Authorship:

by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), title 1: "An old song re-sung", title 2: "Down by the Salley Gardens", appears in The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, first published 1889

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CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Geart van der Meer) , copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRI Frisian (Geart van der Meer) , "Bij de marswâl", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRI Frisian (Geart van der Meer) , copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Unten bei den Salley‑Gärten

(Sung text translation for setting by I. Gurney)

See original

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Unten bei den Salley-Gärten traf ich mich mit meiner Geliebten;
Sie durchlief die Salley-Gärten auf ihren schneeweißen Füßchen.
Sie bat mich, das Leben so leicht zu nehmen, wie Blätter auf den Bäumen wachsen;
Aber ich, der ich jung und töricht war, war nicht mit ihr einverstanden.
 
In einem Felde bei dem Flusse stand ich mit meiner Geliebten,
Und auf meine gebeugte Schulter legte sie ihre schneeweiße Hand.
Sie bat mich, das Leben so leicht zu nehmen, wie das Gras beim Wehre wächst;
Aber ich war jung und töricht, und bin jetzt voller Tränen.

Translated titles:
"But I was young and foolish" = "Aber ich war jung und töricht"
"Down by the Salley Gardens" = "Unten bei den Salley-Gärten "
"The Salley Gardens" = "Die Salley-Gärten"
"I was young and foolish" = "Ich war jung und töricht"

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a text in English by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), title 1: "An old song re-sung", title 2: "Down by the Salley Gardens", appears in The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, first published 1889
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