Oh anxious dream, why do you flutter

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by (Karl) Wilhelm Osterwald (1820 - 1887)

Translation © by Garrett Medlock

Vergessen

(Sung text for setting by R. Franz)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

O banger Traum, was flatterst du
   Mit schwarzen Flügel um mein Haupt?
Du hast mir, du, die ganze Ruh
   Aus meinem Herzen wild geraubt.

Ich träum', ich steh an Baches Rand,
   Die Trauerweide hängt herein,
Die Quelle schwand, verdorrt im Sand
   Sind all die blauen Vergißnichtmein.

Vergessen, ach! vergessen sein
   Vom liebsten Herzen in der Welt,
Das ist allein die schwerste Pein,
   Die auf ein Menschenherze fällt.

Composition:

Robert Franz

Text Authorship:

by (Karl) Wilhelm Osterwald (1820 - 1887), title 1: "Vergessen", title 2: "Erinnerung", appears in Gedichte, in 1. Erstes Buch: Lieder, no. 54, first published 1848

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Forgetting

(Sung text translation for setting by R. Franz)

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Oh anxious dream, why do you flutter
   With black wings around my head?
You have, you, all rest
   From my wild heart stolen.

I dream, I stand at the creek’s edge,
   The weeping willow hangs there,
The spring dwindled away, dried up in the sand
   Are all of the blue forget-me-nots.

Forgetting, ah! to be forgotten
   From the dearest heart in the world,
That is alone the hardest pain
   Which upon a human heart falls.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by (Karl) Wilhelm Osterwald (1820 - 1887), title 1: "Vergessen", title 2: "Erinnerung", appears in Gedichte, in 1. Erstes Buch: Lieder, no. 54, first published 1848
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Word count: 75