Grad wenn's am schönsten ist
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
So war's zu aller Frist,
Wirst's müssen leiden:
Grad, wenn's am schönsten ist,
Ach! gilt's zu scheiden!
Sonne, du weißt es gut:
Mitten im Winken,
Grad in der schönsten Gluth,
Ach! mußt du sinken!
Fluren, wenn spät im Jahr
Golden ihr flimmert
Und's noch so wunderbar
Leuchtet und schimmert,
Jäh von der Haide bald,
Trüber und trüber,
Und aus dem bunten Wald
Klingt es herüber:
So wars's zu aller Frist,
Wirst's müssen leiden:
Grad, wenn's am schönsten ist,
Ach! gilt's zu scheiden!
Confirmed with Neue Lieder von Friedrich Oser (1874-1884), Basel: Verlag von M. Bernheim, 1885, pages 80-81.
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Just when everything is at its most beautiful
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
It was always thus,
You will have to suffer it:
Just when everything is at its most beautiful,
Ah, one must part!
Sun, you know it well:
In the middle of your beckoning,
Just in the most beautiful glow,
Ah! you must sink!
Meadows, when late in the year
You flicker golden,
And when you ever so wondrously
Glow and shimmer,
Soon abruptly from the heath,
Drearily and ever more drearily,
And from the colourful woods,
Comes the sound:
It was always thus,
You will have to suffer it:
Just when everything is at its most beautiful,
Ah, one must part!
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