The Lover’s Resolve | When you set off from here

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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Translation © by Patrick John Corness

Úmysl milenčin

Language: Czech (Čeština)

Our translations: ENG

Až odtud pojedeš, 
můj holečku, 
já pudu za tebou 
pudu za vojačku. 

Co bys, má panenko, 
co bys tam dělala? 
vždyť bys mě ve vojsku 
nepoznala? 

Udělala bych se 
malým ptáčkem, 
snášela bych se ti 
nad kloboučkem. 

Udělala bych se 
vlaštovičkou, 
snášela bych se ti 
nad hlavičkou

Text Authorship:

from Volkslieder (Folksongs) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904), "Úmysl milenčin", op. 41 no. 2, B. 72 no. 2, published 1877, from Kytice z ceských narodnich písní, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Patrick Corness) , "The Lover’s Resolve", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2007-11-26
Line count: 16
Word count: 47

The Lover’s Resolve

Language: English after the Czech (Čeština)

When you set off from here, 
my darling lad, 
I’ll go along with you, 
a soldier girl, right glad. 

What good would that be, my dear, 
what good would that be? 
You could never tell 
which soldier was me.

Then I would change and be 
a tiny bird; 
I’d always fly around 
above your head. 

I would change and be 
a tiny swallow;
 I’d fly above your head 
and you I’d follow

Translator's note: This translation first published in ‘Překladatelská strategie přebásnění Dvořákových Mužských sborů bez doprovodu do angličtiny’ [A Strategy for Czech-English Verse Translation] (Patrick John Corness), in Časopis pro moderní filologii [Journal for Modern Philology] 2018 (100): 225-249. https://casopispromodernifilologii.ff.cuni.cz/en/magazin/2018-100-2/

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This text was added to the website: 2023-06-27
Line count: 16
Word count: 72