We do not suit each other | We do not suit each other,"

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Fels und Moos

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

"Wir passen für einander nicht" 
hat oft dein Mund gesprochen,
Und ach, mir hat dies harte Wort
beinah' das Herz gebrochen.
Der starre Fels, das zarte Moos, 
ob sie für einander passen?
Und frag' den Fels, und frag' das Moos, 
ob sie von einander lassen?

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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):

by Mathilde, Baroness Willy de Rothschild (1832 - 1924), "Fels und Moos", published 1887 [voice and piano], from Zwölf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 7, Mainz, Schott [
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We do not suit each other

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

"We do not suit each other,"
you have often told me,
and ah how this grim phrase
has almost broken my heart.
The rigid rock, the tender moss,
do they suit each other?  
And does the rock ask, and does the moss ask,
whether they should leave each other?

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This text was added to the website: 2012-11-20
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Word count: 49