Language: German (Deutsch)
Our translations: ENG FRE
In diesen welken Tagen,
wo Alles bald zu Ende ist,
sturmzerfetzte Sonnenblumen
über dunkle Zäune ragen,
Wolken jagen
und den Boden flammenfarbne
Blätterstürze schlagen:
da müssen wir nun tragen,
was wir uns mußten sagen
an diesen welken Tagen.
Composition:
Set to music by Ján Móry (1892 - 1978), "Klage", op. 15 no. 5 (1929) [ voice and piano ], Berlin: Verlag von Ries & Erler
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Lament", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Plainte", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs
[Senior Associate Editor]This text was added to the website: 2008-10-07
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Word count: 40
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
In these wilted days,
when everything is soon at an end,
when sunflowers, tattered by storms
loom over dark fences,
clouds race
and the ground is being beaten
by flame-coloured leaf falls:
thus we now must bear
that which we had to say to each other
on these wilted days.
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