Fairest Spring, thou art not here,
Nowhere, nowhere wilt thou tarry,
Where I saw thy flowers appear,
Autumn's blasts the dead leaves carry.
Mournfully the wind creeps by.
As if wailing through the hedges,
Bearing Nature's dying sigh,
Shuddering o'er the withered sedges.
Once again, so soon, how soon.
Has a year behind me perished.
From the woods a murmur comes,
"Hast thou found the hopes long cherished."
Forest murmurs, strangely dear,
My heart's grief have ye invaded
Come with each returning year.
Faded leaves and hopes as faded.
Nikolaus Lenau (1808 - 1850) Austria (born in modern day Hungary)
Translated by Lois Saunders
Source: Strangers and foreigners being translations from the French, Italian, German and Middle High German : done into English verse, Lois Saunders, Elkin Mathews, 1912
Nowhere, nowhere wilt thou tarry,
Where I saw thy flowers appear,
Autumn's blasts the dead leaves carry.
Mournfully the wind creeps by.
As if wailing through the hedges,
Bearing Nature's dying sigh,
Shuddering o'er the withered sedges.
Once again, so soon, how soon.
Has a year behind me perished.
From the woods a murmur comes,
"Hast thou found the hopes long cherished."
Forest murmurs, strangely dear,
My heart's grief have ye invaded
Come with each returning year.
Faded leaves and hopes as faded.
Nikolaus Lenau (1808 - 1850) Austria (born in modern day Hungary)
Translated by Lois Saunders
Source: Strangers and foreigners being translations from the French, Italian, German and Middle High German : done into English verse, Lois Saunders, Elkin Mathews, 1912
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