Das Fenstergitter (Pendschere kafesi)
Language: German (Deutsch) after the Turkish (Türkçe)
Vöglein schlägt mit seidnen Schwingen
An das graue Fenstergitter;
Kleiner Bote, lass dein Singen,
Still ward's hinter'm Fenstergitter!
Hundert rothe Rosen glühen
Um das graue Fenstergitter,
Tausend knospen und verblühen --
Leer ward's hinter'm Fenstergitter
Pocht des Todes Schattenfinger
Leis an's graue Fenstergitter. -- --
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"Hab' Erbarmen, Allbezwinger -- !"
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Nacht ward's hinter'm Fenstergitter!
Confirmed with: Rosenblätter. Lieder und Sprüche des Volkssängers und Improvisators Assim-Agha Gül hanedé, Dem Neutürkischen nachgedichtet von Bernhardine Schulze-Smidt, Leipzig: Verlag von Schmidt & Günther, 1893, page 52.
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With silken wings a little bird knocks
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
With silken wings a little bird knocks
Upon the grey window-grate;
Little messenger, leave off singing,
It grew quiet behind the window-grate!
A hundred red roses glow
Around the grey window-grate,
A thousand of them bud forth and then wilt --
It grew empty behind the window-grate
The shadowy finger of death
Raps quietly upon the grey window-grate. -- --
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"Have mercy, all-conqueror -- !"
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It became night behind the window-grate!
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"Das Fenstergitter (Pendschere kafesi)" = "The window-grate (Pendschere kafesi)"
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