by
Klaus Groth (1819 - 1899)
Ei, du Lütte, Söte, Witte
Language: Plattdeutsch
Available translation(s): ENG
Ei, du Lütte, Söte, Witte,
Ei du Lütte, weerst du min!
Wull di hȩgen, wull di plȩgen,
Schust min Schatz, min Demant sin!
Och, ik kik di dœr de Ogen
Bet int stille Hart hinin:
Ob't ni sin kunn, Lütte, Witte,
Ob't ni sin kunn, du weerst min!
All wat schön is, all wat smuck is,
Och, ik seeg dat all darin!
Funn ik blot darin, du Lütte,
Ok dat Beste: du weerst min!
Ei, du Lütte, Söte, Witte,
Ei du Lütte, weerst du min!
Wull di plȩgen, wull di hȩgen,
Schust min Schatz, min Demant sin!
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Klaus Groth's Gesammelte Werke. Zweiter Band. Quickborn II, Kiel und Leipzig, Verlag von Lipsius & Tischer, 1893, page 215.
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Oh, you little one", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 97
Oh, you little one
Language: English  after the Plattdeutsch
Oh, you little one, sweet one, very fair one,
oh, you little one, if only you were mine!
I wish to hold you dear and cherish you,
you should be my dearest, my diamond!
Alas, I look through your eyes
right into your tranquil heart:
if it may come true, little one, very fair one,
if it may come true that you were mine.
Every beauty, every grace,
alas, both I see in it!
If only I found in it, you little one,
the best of all, too: you were mine!
Oh, you little one, sweet one, very fair one,
oh, you little one, if only you were mine!
I wish to hold you dear and cherish you,
you should be my dearest, my diamond!
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This text was added to the website: 2010-05-28
Line count: 16
Word count: 125