Oh, you little one | Oh, you little one, sweet one, very fair one

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by Klaus Groth (1819 - 1899)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Ei, du Lütte, Söte, Witte

Language: Plattdeutsch

Our translations: ENG

Ei, du Lütte, Söte, Witte,
Ei du Lütte, weerst du min!
Wull di hȩgen, wull di plȩgen,
Schust min Schatz, min Demant sin!

Och, ik kik di dœr de Ogen
Bet int stille Hart hinin:
Ob't ni sin kunn, Lütte, Witte,
Ob't ni sin kunn, du weerst min!

All wat schön is, all wat smuck is,
Och, ik seeg dat all darin!
Funn ik blot darin, du Lütte,
Ok dat Beste: du weerst min!

Ei, du Lütte, Söte, Witte,
Ei du Lütte, weerst du min!
Wull di plȩgen, wull di hȩgen,
Schust min Schatz, min Demant sin!

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Confirmed with Klaus Groth's Gesammelte Werke. Zweiter Band. Quickborn II, Kiel und Leipzig, Verlag von Lipsius & Tischer, 1893, page 215.

Text Authorship:

by Klaus Groth (1819 - 1899), no title, appears in Quickborn II, in Ei, du Lütte, no. 1, first published 1888 [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 Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Ei, du Lütte", 1894-7? [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Oh, you little one", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Virginia Knight

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 97

Oh, you little one

Language: English after the Plattdeutsch

Oh, you little one, sweet one, very fair one,
oh, you little one, if only you were mine!
I wish to hold you dear and cherish you,
you should be my dearest, my diamond!

Alas, I look through your eyes
right into your tranquil heart:
if it may come true, little one, very fair one,
if it may come true that you were mine.

Every beauty, every grace,
alas, both I see in it!
If only I found in it, you little one,
the best of all, too: you were mine!

Oh, you little one, sweet one, very fair one,
oh, you little one, if only you were mine!
I wish to hold you dear and cherish you,
you should be my dearest, my diamond!

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in Plattdeutsch by Klaus Groth (1819 - 1899), no title, appears in Quickborn II, in Ei, du Lütte, no. 1, first published 1888
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This text was added to the website: 2010-05-28
Line count: 16
Word count: 125