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Thread #131574   Message #2969419
Posted By: GUEST,Guest2
20-Aug-10 - 11:27 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Schubert's Serenade (English words)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Schuberts Serenade (Engish words)
Here is an English version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiTiX1vNyEA

The original poem is by Ludwig Rellstab. Rellstab's assistant Gugl Translet has the following variant for Schubert's version, of somewhat equal quality (note particularly the poetic verse "Also let you move the chest"):

1st Quiet implore my songs
Through the night to you;
down in the quiet grove,
Darling, come to me!

Whispering slim treetops rustle
|: In light of the moon: |
The hostile betrayer
|: Be afraid, darling, do not! : |

2nd Do you hear the nightingales?
Oh, they beckon to you,
With the sweet sound complaints
Implore them to me.

They understand the heart tendons,
|: Know the pain of love: |
Stirring with the silver tones
|: Each tender heart. : |

3rd Also let you move the chest,
Hear me darling,
Trembling I await you!
|: Come on, please me! : |
Gladden me!

F.