Tränen | Weint nicht mehr, traurige Brunnen

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Julia Hamann

Weep you no more, sad fountains

(Sung text for setting by E. Moeran)

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Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER

Weep you no more, sad fountains;
  What need you flow so fast?
Look how the snowy mountains
  Heaven's sun doth gently waste!
    But my sun's heavenly eyes
      View not your weeping,
      That now lies sleeping,
    Softly, now softly lies
        Sleeping.

Sleep is a reconciling,
  A rest that peace begets;
Doth not the sun rise smiling
  When fair at e'en he sets?
    Rest you, then, rest, sad eyes!
      Melt not in weeping,
      While she lies sleeping,
    Softly, now softly lies
        Sleeping.

Composition:

Ernest John Moeran

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author ( 16^th century )

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FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Julia Hamann) , "Tränen", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Tränen

(Sung text translation for setting by E. Moeran)

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Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Weint nicht mehr, traurige Brunnen
wozu so reich strömen?
Sieh' wie die Schneeberge
des Himmels Sonne freundlich taut!
Doch meiner Sonne himmlische Augen
sehen Euer Weinen nicht,
das schlafend nun daliegt
still nun und sanft liegt 
schlafend.

Schlaf ist ein Versöhner
eine Ruh', die Frieden zeugt.
Geht nicht die Sonne lächelnd auf,
wenn heiter und schön er sofort begann?
Ruht also, ruht, Augen voll Traurigkeit
Löst euch nicht auf in Tränen,
Während sie nun schlafend liegt,
sanft und still liegt 
schlafend.

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