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by Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680 - 1747)

Falschheit
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG
Es herrschet in der Welt die Falschheit aller Orten;
die Wahrheit ist verbannt, die Redlichkeit verjagt;
die Freunde dieser Zeit sind Freunde bloß in Worten:
der Allerehrlichste tut anders, als er sagt.

Der, so dich herzt und küsst, wird dich ohnfehlbar fällen,
So bald er glaubt, dein Fall könn' ihm erspriesslich sein.
Kein Mensch ist, was er scheint: man weiss sich zu verstellen,
Nie stimmt mit dem Gemüt das Ansehn überein.

Doch dieses alles muß man nicht von Weibern meinen,
Weil ihrer keine fasst uns je betrogen hat,
Indem sie insgemein von aussen boshaft scheinen:
Und wenn man's untersucht, so sind sie's in der Tat.

Text Authorship:

  • by Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680 - 1747) [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 Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767), "Falschheit" [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

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

  • ENG English (Poppy Holden) , title 1: "Falsehood", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Poppy Holden

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 105

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