by
Günther Walling (1839 - 1896), as Karl Ulrici
Es waren schöne Tage
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
Es waren schöne Tage,
Als ich gekommen im Mai,
Nun rauscht wie bange Klage
Des Herbstwinds Ruf: "Vorbei!"
Die heitren Töne verklangen,
Das Korn ist längst gemäht,
Am Boden kriechen Schlangen,
Die Blumen welkten im Beet.
Und von den hundert Blättern
Der Rose ist keins mehr zu sehn,
Es blieben in Herbsteswettern
Nur Dornen am Strauche stehn.
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Confirmed with Günther Walling (Carl Ulrici), Von Lenz zu Herbst. Dichtungen, Zweite vielfach veränderte Auflage, Leipzig und Berlin: Verlag von Wilhelm Friedrich, 1887, page 22.
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- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Those were beautiful days", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Those were beautiful days
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
Those were beautiful days,
When I came in May,
Now like an anxious lament
The autumn wind's cry sounds: "Past!"
The merry sounds have died away,
The wheat has long been mown,
Snakes crawl upon the ground,
The flowers have wilted in the bed.
And of the hundred petals
Of the rose, none is to be seen any longer,
In the storms of autumn
Only thorns have remained upon the bushes.
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