To the wall clock | Old clock! your hand moves

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by Justinus (Andreas Christian) Kerner (1786 - 1862)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

An die Wanduhr

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Alte Uhr! dein Zeiger geht
Wohl noch richtig seine Bahn,
Doch dein Schlagwerk stille steht,
Schlägt nicht mehr die Stunden an.

Alte Uhr! dich hat die Zeit
So wie mich verletzet schwer!
Geht auch noch mein Tagwerk heut',
Schlägt mein Herz doch fast nicht mehr.

Confirmed with Justinus Kerners sämtliche poetische Werke in vier Bänden, herausgegeben von Dr. Josef Gaismaier, 1. Band, Leipzig: Max Hesses Verlag, 1880, page 235.

Text Authorship:

by Justinus (Andreas Christian) Kerner (1786 - 1862), "An die Wanduhr", appears in Gedichte, in Die lyrischen Gedichte [author's text checked 1 time 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 Rudolf Leberl (1884 - 1952), "An die Wanduhr", op. 22 (Zehn Lieder zur Gitarre nach Gedichten von Justinus Kerner) no. 8 (1925), published 2006 [ voice and guitar ], Frankfurt am Main: Laurentius-Musikverlag [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "To the wall clock", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2021-09-04
Line count: 8
Word count: 45

To the wall clock

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Old clock! your hand moves
Correctly yet on its pathway,
But your mechanism is motionless,
It no longer chimes the hours.

Old clock! time has damaged
You severely, just as it has me!
Though my daily work still goes on,
My heart is hardly beating any more.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Justinus (Andreas Christian) Kerner (1786 - 1862), "An die Wanduhr", appears in Gedichte, in Die lyrischen Gedichte
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This text was added to the website: 2021-09-04
Line count: 8
Word count: 47