First Loss

Goethe

 

Ah, who will bring back those fair days, 

those days of first love?

Ah, who will bring back but one hour 

of that sweet time?

Alone I nurture my wound

and, forever renewing my lament, 

mourn my lost happiness.

Ah, who will bring back those fair days, 

that sweet time?

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Translations by Richard Wigmore first published by Gollancz and reprinted in the Hyperion Schubert Song Edition