by
Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876) and sometimes misattributed to
Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger (1810 - 1864)
Er ist todt und lange hin,
Todt und hin, Fräulein;
Ihm zu Häupten grünes Gras,
Ihm zu Fuß ein Stein.
O, ho!
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Confirmed with Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark, übersetzt von Karl Simrock, in: William Shakspear’s[sic] sämmtliche dramatische Werke in neuen Uebersetzungen, Leipzig: Georg Wigand’s Verlag, [no year], page 686
Note: according to The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss, ed. by Charles Youmans, Seeger is listed as the translator of Hamlet, but Seeger's translations are quite different. Simrock and Seeger are listed together as the translators for the ten-volume set.
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- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , no title, copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Il est mort loin d'ici,
Mort et loin d'ici, Madame !
À sa tête de l'herbe verte,
À ses pieds une pierre.
Oh !