Re: Strauss/Oscar Wilde
From
Leslie Burkhardt@21:1/5 to
All on Thu Jun 15 10:51:42 2023
I would’ve been absolutely certain except that Wilde’s poem is not in the same meter. Look at the lyrics translated into English. It’s the perfect song for Oscars poem:
Nothing better on this earth
that is more preciously appreciated
as love; because it is proven
that love together unites soon
sense, heart, mind with all might,
if only two had one shape.
Therefore, what is said, I deny everything;
to have right love brings no pain,
when both hearts are one, be one.
The soul of man is a thousand times
more delicious everywhere,
than mortal man at all.
Love still has its power
brought her under her sweet yoke;
take it well in mind.
Therefore, what one says is insult and joke;
to have right love brings no pain,
who loves a faithful, faithful heart.
All other joy and diversion good,
eh one with it refreshes the courage,
disappear, does disappear.
But the joy that love brings
stays for many years, always arises anew,
again enters the heart no.
Therefore, what one says is all a mockery;
to have right love brings no misery,
delighted, delighted unto death.
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