© by
Leibu Levin (1914 - 1983)
Farnem mayn lid
Language: Yiddish (יידיש)  after the German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
Mayn lid farnem,
hagam s'iz trib,
der regn veynt un veynt.
Ver s'iz in klem,
hert un farshteyt:
dos glik hot zikh opgevendt.
S'iz shoyn avek
di tsayt fun freyd,
ven s'hot dos glik gehelt.
Biz tifstn dek
tseplatst, tsetsveyt,
khotsh s'hot gevakht di velt.
Kert alts tsurik?
Dos veys ikh nit.
Dos veyst mistam der vint.
Blaybt gants dos glik,
vert er nit mid
un brengt undz treyst geshvind.
Nor ze, der vint
bahalt zikh oys,
un iz dokh ersht geven.
Punkt vi a kind,
dakht zikh im oys:
nor er veyst vos geshen.
Farnem mayn lid.
Kon zayn, es brengt
dos lakhn ven tsurik, --
un vayt a yid
vet zen -- es hengt
iber zayn kop dos glik.
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Hadassah Haskale) , title 1: "Take this, my song", copyright © 2007 by Ruth Levin, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Ruth Levin
This text was added to the website: 2007-09-22
Line count: 30
Word count: 119
Take this, my song
Language: English  after the Yiddish (יידיש)
Take this, my song,
Although it grieves,
The rain it weeps and weeps.
Those who know pain
Will understand:
Joy is what it intends.
It's long since fled,
The time of light
When I was filled with joy...
That time has burst,
Crumbled to bits,
While all the world looked on.
The past come back ?
I can't know that.
Perhaps the wind has clues.
If joy exists,
Return it will
And along with it relief.
But see, the wind,
It likes to hide
And dwells in mystery.
Just so, a child
Likes to believe
He's guarding a secret.
My song, take it.
Could be, it brings
The laughter back again.
And someone somewhere
Will see behind
Its cry, longing for joy.
Authorship:
Based on:
- a text in Yiddish (יידיש) by Leibu Levin (1914 - 1983), copyright © by Ruth Levin, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Based on:
This text was added to the website: 2007-09-21
Line count: 30
Word count: 122