The premonition | I drank my morning coffee and felt no horrid premonition

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by Erich Kurt Mühsam (1878 - 1934)

Translation © by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947)

Die Ahnung

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Ich trank meinen Morgenkaffee und ahnte nichts Böses.
Es klingelte. Ich ahnte noch immer nichts Böses.
Der Briefträger brachte mir ein Schreiben. Nichts Böses ahnend, öffnete ich es.
Es stand nichts Böses darin.
Ha! rief ich aus. Meine Ahnung hat mich nicht betrogen.

Text Authorship:

by Erich Kurt Mühsam (1878 - 1934), "Die Ahnung" [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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Die Ahnung", 2010 [medium voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Gary Bachlund) , "The premonition", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2010-02-03
Line count: 5
Word count: 43

The premonition

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

I drank my morning coffee and felt no horrid premonition.
The doorbell rang. I felt still no approaching evil.
The postman brought me a letter. Feeling no trepidation, I opened it.
There was nothing horrible therein.
"Ha," I cried aloud. My hunches had not deceived me.

Text Authorship:

by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "The premonition", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Erich Kurt Mühsam (1878 - 1934), "Die Ahnung"
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-02-03
Line count: 5
Word count: 46