Den Allerweltstag auch zu ehr’n

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Simple days

(Sung text for setting by E. Bacon)

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Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER

To venerate the simple days
  Which lead the seasons by,
Needs but to remember
  That from you or I
They may take the trifle
  Termed mortality!

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Composition:

Ernst Bacon

Songs from Emily Dickinson: Nature Time and Space - Volume 1

Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems: Third Series, in 1. Life, no. 7, first published 1896

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FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Den Allerweltstag auch zu ehr’n

(Sung text translation for setting by E. Bacon)

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Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Den Allerweltstag auch zu ehr’n,
der durch das Jahr uns führt,
heißt, man besinne sich,
dass er dir und mir
das bisschen nehmen könnt, 
was sich Leben nennt.

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a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems: Third Series, in 1. Life, no. 7, first published 1896
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