Nikolaus Lenau: “My Heart”

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Translated by Charles Wharton Stork



Mein Herz


1844




Sleepless night, the rushing rain,


While my heart with ceaseless pain


Hears the mournful past subsiding


Or the uncertain future striding.




Heart, 'tis fatal thus to harken,


Let not fear thy courage darken,


Though the past be all regretting


And the future helpless fretting.




Onward, let what's mortal die.


Is the storm near, beat thou high.


Who came safe o'er Galilee


Makes the voyage now in thee.


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				 , October 1, 2008.   Lenau, Nikolaus Lenau		

			

				

				

					
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