Inner worth | A clever man honors the pig

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by Wilhelm Busch (1832 - 1908)

Translation © by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947)

Innerer Wert

Language: German (Deutsch)

Ein kluger Mann verehrt das Schwein;
Er denkt an dessen Zweck.
Von außen ist es ja nicht fein,
Doch drinnen sitzt der Speck.

Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Busch (1832 - 1908), "Innerer Wert" [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), "Innerer Wert", 2010 [baritone and piano], from Busch-lieder , no. 5 [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Gary Bachlund) , "Inner worth", written 2010, copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-12-29
Line count: 4
Word count: 23

Inner worth

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

A clever man honors the pig;
By its reality is he taken.
Outside it may be coarse and big,
But inside is its bacon.

Rhymed paraphrase.

Text Authorship:

by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Inner worth", written 2010, 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 Wilhelm Busch (1832 - 1908), "Innerer Wert"
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

[ None yet in the database ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-12-29
Line count: 4
Word count: 24