He who wishes to be sorrowful might perhaps read me
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Translated titles:
"Wer traurig sein will" = "He who wishes to be sorrowful"
"Chanson allemande" = "German song"
"Traurigkeit" = "Sadness"

¹ Eisler: "the"
² Eisler: " But can"
³ Eisler: "I do not wish to ask you about your"
⁴ Eisler: "better"

Authorship

• Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2016 by Sharon Krebs
  
  

Based on

• a text in German (Deutsch) by Berthold Viertel (1885 - 1953), "Wer traurig sein will", appears in Der Lebenslauf. Gedichte, in Stimmen der Zeit, copyright ©
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