by
Ernst Eckstein (1845 - 1900)
Language: German (Deutsch)
Das ist der fahle, schlummernde See,
Aus dem das Leben geronnen
Mit seinem thränenbeträuften Weh
Und seinen vergänglichen Wonnen.
Ein Traum nur paarte die irdische Pein
Dem traumgeborenen Glücke, --
Und dem es entsprang, das nichtige Sein,
In's Urnichts geht es zurücke.
Gemach ersterben im eisigen All
Des Lichtes zitternde Fluthen;
Die ewigen Götter kommen zu Fall,
Die Sonnenbälle verbluten.
Und bleich verröchelt am Weltensaum
Die fiebernde Episode,
Und einsam klingt im unendlichen Raum
Das Lied vom ewigen Tode.
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- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Nirvana", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
That is the pallid, slumbering lake,
Out of which life has drained,
With its tear-bedewed sorrow
And its ephemeral joys.
Only a dream paired earthly suffering
With dream-born happiness, --
And that from which it arose, the futile existence,
It goes back into the primal nothingness.
Slowly the light's trembling floodwaters
Die in the icy universe;
The eternal gods come to their downfall,
The round suns bleed to death.
And palely at the edge of world
The feverish episode wheezes to its end,
And, lonely in the endless expanse, sounds
The song of eternal death.
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