by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
Translation by Adolf Böttger (1815 - 1870)

Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake
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Clear, placid Leman!  thy contrasted lake,
With the wide world I dwelt in, is a thing
Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake
Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring.
This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing
To waft me from distraction;  once I loved
Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring
Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved,
That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.

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Confirmed with The Works of the Right Hon. Lord Byron, Volume One, London: John Murray, 1815; also confirmed with Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a Romaunt: and Other Poems, eighth edition, London: John Murray, 1814. Appears in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, in Canto the Third, no. 85, page 47.


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Language: German (Deutsch)  after the English 
O stiller Lemansee!  wie so verschieden 
Bist von der Welt du doch, die ich durchzogen,
Zu tauschen mahnet mich dein süßer Frieden
Der Erde trübe Flut mit deinen Wogen.
Die ruh'gen Segel haben mich entzogen
Dem stillen Kummer, zarten Schwingen gleich;
Dem Sturm des Meeres war ich gewogen,
Dein Murmeln schmält wie eine Schwester weich,
Daß ich im Braus verweilt, an wilden Freuden reich.

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