by
Günther Walling (1839 - 1896)
Thau und Thräne
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
Zur Thräne sprach der Thau voll Hohn:
"Du bist die Tochter irdischer Qual,
Nicht gleichst Du mir, des Himmels Sohn,
Dem Kinde der Luft, der Blumen Gemahl."
"Geboren vom Leid," sprach die Thräne darauf,
"Dring' aus der Menschen Aug' ich hervor,
Vom Himmel zur Erde geht Dein Lauf,
Ich steig' von der Erde zum Himmel empor."
Confirmed with Günther Walling (Carl Ulrici), Von Lenz zu Herbst. Dichtungen, Zweite vielfach veränderte Auflage, Leipzig und Berlin: Verlag von Wilhelm Friedrich, 1887, page 31.
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- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Dewdrop and teardrop", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Dewdrop and teardrop
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
Full of scorn the dewdrop spoke to the teardrop:
"You are the daughter of earthly agony,
You are not like me, the son of Heaven,
The child of the air, the spouse of the flowers."
"Born of suffering," the teardrop answered,
"I flow forth from the eyes of mankind;
Your pathway leads from Heaven to earth,
[But] I rise from earth to Heaven."
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