Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan
Now, you've hurt me for the first time
Frauenliebe und -leben Love in a Woman's Life
Chamisso
Now, you’ve hurt me
for the first time in my life
And made me catch my breath!
You sleep, with no consideration
for your wife;
It is the sleep of death.
She, whom you have abandoned
Looks on a world that is bare.
I have loved and I have lived;
That world’s no longer there.
So I withdraw into myself,
Quietly draw down the veil;
There I will find the joy I’ve lost,
You, my whole world, without fail.
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