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by Nikolaus Lenau (1802 - 1850)

Translation © by Walter A. Aue

Herbstlied

(Sung text for setting by H. Bill)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG ENG FRE

Holder Lenz, du bist dahin!
Nirgends darfst du bleiben!
Wo ich sah dein frohes Blühn,
Braust des Herbstes banges Treiben.

Wie der Wind so traurig fuhr
Durch den Strauch, als ob er weine;
Sterbeseufzer der Natur
Schauern durch den welken Hain.

Wieder ist, wie bald! wie bald!
Mir ein Jahr geschwunden.
Fragend rauscht es durch den Wald:
"Hat dein Herz sein Glück gefunden?"

Waldesrauschen, wunderbar
Hast du mein Herz getroffen!
Treulich bringt ein jedes Jahr
Neues Laub wie neues Hoffen.

Composition:

Hans Bill

Text Authorship:

by Nikolaus Lenau (1802 - 1850), "Herbstklage", appears in Gedichte, in 1. Erstes Buch, in Herbst, first published 1831?

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Cançó de tardor", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Autumn lament/song", copyright © 2004
ENG English (Walter A. Aue) , "Lovely Spring, you left so soon!", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Plainte d'automne", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 92

Lovely Spring, you left so soon!

(Sung text translation for setting by H. Bill)

See original

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Lovely Spring, you left so soon!
Nowhere, nowhere dare you linger!
Where once shone your joyful bloom
reigns the fall, the worry-bringer.

How the wind so sadly passed
through the bushes, as if crying;
sounds of Nature's death at last
in the fallow groves are sighing.

And it seems - so fast! so fast!
that another year departed.
Whispers from the forest ask:
"Have your happy hours started?"

Sylvan whispers' magic sense
targetted my inner groping:
Faithfully each year presents
faded leaves and faded hoping.

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2008 by Walter A. Aue, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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