V tak mnohém srdci mrtvo jest
Language: Czech (Čeština)
Our translations: ENG ENG FIN
V tak mnohém srdci mrtvo jest
Jak v temné pustině;
V něm na žalosť a na bolesť,
Ba místa jedině.
Tu klami lásky horoucí
V to srdce vstupuje,
A srdce žalem prahnoucí,
To mní, že miluje.
A v tomto sladkém domnění
Se ještě jednou v ráj
To srdce mrtvé promění
A zpívá starou báj!
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Confirmed with Cypřiše. Sbírka básní lyrických a epických od Gustava Pflegera (Moravského), V Praze (Prague) : Nákladem knihkupectvi: I. L. Kober, 1862, page 57. Note: the Bärenreiter edition of Dvořák's setting (2013) uses the spelling "žalost" and "bolest" (stanza 1, line 3). The website antonin-dvorak.cz uses the spelling "klamy" (stanza 2, line 1).
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Djordje Nesic) (Hannah Sharene Penn) , "In many a heart death dwells", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Patrick John Corness) , "So many hearts are all lifeless", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Monessakin sydämessä asuu kuolema", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 54
In many a heart death dwells
Language: English  after the Czech (Čeština)
In many a heart death dwells
As in a dark desert.
In such a heart, there is only room
for sadness and illness.
The burning love enters
Into the heart, to deceive it.
The sad heart pines
And thinks it is in love.
In that sweet state,
That state of paradise,
The dead heart revives again,
And sings, sings its old song.
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Word count: 62