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Thread #84817 Message #3767737
Posted By: keberoxu
24-Jan-16 - 11:20 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Wild Rose / Heidenroeslein (Goethe)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wild Rose / Heidenröslein (Goethe)
Guest Brian, I don't personally know this version. A quick and dirty Google search shows Natalia MacFarren, who wrote many English translations during the Victorian era for music with originals in other languages. I am having trouble pulling up MacFarren's translation itself, but it does seem that she is the translator:
Said the youth, I'll cull thee now,
Rose among the heather,
Said the rose, My thorn, I vow,
Thou shalt feel, 'tis sharp enough,
Me thou shalt not gather.
Rose, thou pretty rose so red,
Rose among the heather.
...that's the only snippet I could look at.