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And some things I’ve experienced
made me silently very angry
but the next time I sang
all was well again

Drum schlaf nur, mein Liebling, schlaf selig und fest,
wie’s Lämmchen im Stall, wie der Vogel im Nest!

I would like to compose a song
just like this evening
And can not find a sound
as dark, mild and soft.

They sat round the tea-table drinking,
And speaking of love a great deal;
The men of aesthetics were thinking,
The ladies more prone were to feel.

Dämmernd liegt der Sommerabend
Über Wald und grünen Wiesen

I am your bliss, you my pleasure
I am your life, you my light:
what would day, what would sunlight bring?

…that her fragrance, given to her by Spring,
vanish too fast

The dream holds them down
and gives life back
the whispering of the leaves

Sing a song with the leaves of the elm tree
for my sweet child is sleeping