I would like to conceal from myself | I would like to conceal from myself

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by Max Jähns (1837 - 1900)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Ich möcht' es mir selber verschweigen

(Sung text for setting by L. Schmutzler)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Ich möcht' es mir selber verschweigen,
Wie du mein Alles bist,
Wie ohne dich dies Leben
Nicht mehr zu denken ist.
 
Ich möcht' es mir selber verschweigen,
Wie sich mein ganzes Sein
Zu jeder Stunde wendet
Nach deinem Sonnenschein.
 
Ich möcht' es mir selber verschweigen,
Was alle Welt erlauscht,
Wovon die Quelle murmelt,
Wovon die Linde rauscht.--
 
Wie aber kann ich's verschweigen,
Da du zu jeder Frist
Mein höchstes Denken und Sinnen,
Da du mein Alles bist.--

Composition:

Ludwig Schmutzler

Sechs Lieder mit Pianofortebegleitung

Text Authorship:

by Max Jähns (1837 - 1900), no title, appears in Ein Jahr der Jugend: Gedichte, in Mai: Freudiges Ruhn auf der Empfindung

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ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "I would like to conceal from myself", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 79

I would like to conceal from myself

(Sung text translation for setting by L. Schmutzler)

See original

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

I would like to conceal from myself
How you are everything to me,
How without you this life
Is no longer thinkable.
 
I would like to conceal from myself
How my entire being
At every hour turns
Toward your sunshine.
 
I would like to conceal from myself
What all the world has overheard,
What the springs murmur,
What the linden tree soughs.
 
But how can I conceal it,
When you at every moment
Are my highest thinking and meditation,
When you are everything to me?

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Max Jähns (1837 - 1900), no title, appears in Ein Jahr der Jugend: Gedichte, in Mai: Freudiges Ruhn auf der Empfindung
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This text was added to the website: 2011-06-01
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Word count: 85