Ein Tropfen auf den Apfelbaum

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

A drop fell on the apple tree

(Sung text for setting by E. Bacon)

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Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER

A drop fell on the apple tree.
Another on the roof;
A half a dozen kissed the eaves,
And made the gables laugh.

A few went out to help the brook,
That went to help the sea.
Myself conjectured, Were they pearls,
What necklaces could be!

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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 of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890

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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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Ein Tropfen auf den Apfelbaum

(Sung text translation for setting by E. Bacon)

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Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Ein Tropfen auf den Apfelbaum.
Aufs Dach ein weit’rer fiel;
sechs küssten wohl die Traufen dann -
den Giebeln es gefiel.

Ein paar halfen dem Flusse aus,
der wiederum dem Meer.
Wenn’s Perlen wärn, stell ich mir vor,
welch Halsband gäb dies her.

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a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890
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