© by Leibu Levin (1914 - 1983)
Translation © by Hadassah Haskale

Harbst
Language: Yiddish (יידיש)  after the German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG
Der regn shpint
dos groye lid
              fun benkshaft un
              fun tifn vey.

Fun trern blind,
aleyn zayn mid,
              bin ikh a hunt
              un -- gey.

Farloshn gold.
Der toyter troym
              fun libe zet
              mayn leyd un shvaygt.

Arum nor shtralt
un shimert shoym.
               Di benkshaft tsit
               in vayt ...

S'iz harbst geven,
hot trib geveynt,
                mit oygnlikht
                farloshn shoyn.

Er hot gezen
mayn glik fargeyn,
                 batsvungen mikh
                 un -- shoyn.

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  • ENG English (Hadassah Haskale) , title 1: "Autumn", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Ruth Levin

This text was added to the website: 2007-09-22
Line count: 24
Word count: 67

Autumn
Language: English  after the Yiddish (יידיש) 
The rain it spins
a dreary song
             of longing and
             of endless pain.

Of wandering blind
myself alone
              just like a hound
              then -- gone.

Lusterless gold,
love's dream that died,  
              at my sorrow
              mutely looks on.

Around me boils
a glistening foam.
               The longing 
               entices...

Autumn has come,
it weeps for me
               with a dark gaze					
               fastened on mine.

For it has seen
my joy pass by,
                first smiting me
                then -- done.

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  • Translation from Yiddish (יידיש) to English copyright © 2007 by Hadassah Haskale, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.

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  • a text in Yiddish (יידיש) by Leibu Levin (1914 - 1983), copyright © by Ruth Levin, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2007-09-21
Line count: 24
Word count: 72