The summer approaches its end

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by (Karl) Wilhelm Osterwald (1820 - 1887)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Sonnenwende

(Sung text for setting by R. Franz)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Der Sommer ist zu Ende, 
  Ach Liebchen, gehst auch du 
  Und läßt mich ohne Ruh'
Bei dieser Sonnenwende?

Wenn alle Vöglein fliehen
  Und keines bleiben will,
  Dann wird's im Walde still,
Bis sie zurücke ziehen;

Doch wen verläßt die Liebe,
  Dem ist's im Herzen gar,
  Als ob viel tausend Jahr'
Der eine Winter bliebe.

Confirmed with Gedichte von Wilhelm Osterwald, Dritte umgearbeitete und vermehrte Auflage, Leipzig, Verlag von F. G. C. Leuckart (Constantin Sander), 1873, p. 16.

Composition:

Robert Franz

Text Authorship:

by (Karl) Wilhelm Osterwald (1820 - 1887), "Sonnenwende", appears in Gedichte, in 1. Erstes Buch: Lieder, no. 16

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English [singable] (E. S. Willcox) , "Summer solstice"

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Solstice

(Sung text translation for setting by R. Franz)

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

The summer has ended,
  Ah darling, are you too departing
  And leaving me without peace
At this solstice?
 
When all the little birds flee
  And none of them wishes to stay,
  Then it grows quiet in the forest
Until they return;
 
But he whom love forsakes,
  In his heart he feels
  As if for many thousands of years
There has been an unending winter.

Translated titles:
"Sonnenwende" = "Solstice"
"Sommerwende" = "Midsummer"

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a text in German (Deutsch) by (Karl) Wilhelm Osterwald (1820 - 1887), "Sonnenwende", appears in Gedichte, in 1. Erstes Buch: Lieder, no. 16
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