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Lasker-Schüler, Else: Good-Bye (Abschied (3) in English)

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Abschied (3) (German)

Ich wollte dir immerzu

Viele Liebesworte sagen;

 

Nun suchst du ruhlos

Nach verlorenen Wundern.

 

Aber wenn meine Spieluhren spielen,

Feiern wir Hochzeit.

 

- O deine süßen Augen

Sind meine Lieblingsblumen;

 

Und dein Herz ist mein Himmelreich;

Laß mich hineinschauen.

 

Du bist ganz aus glitzernder Minze

Und so weich versonnen…

 

Ich wollte dir immerzu

Viele Liebesworte sagen, -

 

Warum tat ich das nicht?



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Good-Bye (English)

I’d wanted to speak

So many words of love to you.

 

Now you search restlessly

For miracles lost.

 

But when my musical clocks play

It’s wedding time.

 

Oh your sweet eyes

Are my favorite flowers.

 

And your heart is my kingdom of heaven...

Let me glimpse inside.

 

You are entirely of glittering mint,

And so softly lost in thought.

 

I’d wanted to speak

So many words of love to you.

 

Why didn’t I?



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Source of the quotationhttp://www.thedrunkenboat.com

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