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Thread #4138 Message #2681473
Posted By: Jim Dixon
16-Jul-09 - 11:43 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: On Wings of Song (Heine, Mendelssohn)
Subject: Lyr Add: ON WINGS OF SONG
Yet another one, from A Harvest of German Verse selected and translated by Margarete Anna Adelheid Münsterberg (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1916):
ON WINGS OF SONG
On wings of song--ah, lightly,
Heart's dearest, I bear thee away:
A nook is beckoning brightly
Where Ganges' waters play.
A blooming red garden is lying
In moonlight calm and clear,
The lotos flowers are sighing
For thee, their sister dear.
The violets banter and slyly
They peep at the star-rays pale,
The roses are whispering shyly
Some fragrant fairy-tale.
The gentle gazelles come leaping,
And hearken what we say;
The sacred river is sweeping
And murmuring far away.
Beloved, let us be sinking
Under the shady palm,
The blissful quiet drinking
And dreaming dreams of balm.