by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843)
Translation © by Emily Ezust

[No title]
 (Sung text for setting by F. Cerha)
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Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG ENG ITA
 ... 

Doch uns ist gegeben,
  Auf keiner Stätte zu ruh'n;
    Es schwinden, es fallen
      Die leidenden Menschen
        Blindlings von einer
          Stunde zu andern,
            Wie Wasser von Klippe
              Zu Klippe geworfen,
                Jahrlang in's Ungewisse hinab.

Note: the text above is taken from stanza 3 of the original text.

Note: Hyperion is the title character of an unfinished novel in which Hölderlin wrote about the Greek struggle for independence from the Turks.

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Cançó del destí", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Hyperions noodlotslied", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , no title, copyright © 1995
  • ENG English (John Glenn Paton) , "Hyperion's Song of Fate", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Canto del destino di Iperione", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 83

You wander above in the light
 (Sung text translation for setting by F. Cerha)
 See original
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch) 
 ... 

Yet there is granted us
  no place to rest;
    we vanish, we fall -
      the suffering humans -
        blind from one
          hour to another,
            like water thrown from cliff
              to cliff,
                for years into the unknown depths.

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Note: the text above is taken from stanza 3 of the original text.

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  • Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 1995 by Emily Ezust

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 90