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by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876) and sometimes misattributed to Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger (1810 - 1864)

Translation © by Lau Kanen

Drittes Lied der Ophelia

(Sung text for setting by R. Strauss)

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Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG

   Und kommt er nimmermehr?
     ... 
       Er ist todt, o weh!
       In dein Totbett geh',
    Er kommt dir nimmermehr.
    Sein Bart war weiss wie Schnee,
    Sein Haupt wie Flachs dazu.
       Er ist hin, er ist hin,
       Kein Trauern bringt Gewinn:
    Mit seiner Seele Ruh'!
Und mit allen Christenseelen! darum bet' ich! --
Gott sei mit euch!

Note: according to The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss, ed. by Charles Youmans, Seeger is listed as the translator of Hamlet, but Seeger's translations are quite different. Simrock and Seeger are listed together as the translators for the ten-volume set.

Composition:

Richard Georg Strauss

Text Authorship:

by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876), no title, appears in Shakespeare in deutscher Übersetzung, in 6. Hamlet, first published 1868
sometimes misattributed to Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger (1810 - 1864)

Based on:

a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , appears in Hamlet and possibly by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Laura Stanfield Prichard) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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