(Please Note: the following translation is © 2000 Bradley A. Slocum and is presented here only for examination by potential purchasers of the SMB edition in which it appears, along with the original German text.)

English Singing Translation of:

Johannes Brahms: Meine Lieder, Opus 106, No. 4 (SMB #108)

(My songs; text by Frey)

When my heart heart begins its singing and the tones move free as birds a-winging, then before me moving gently faint the blisses, unforgotten, and the shadows of the cypress. Dark the sounds of my own lieder!

(Approx. performance timing: 3:33)

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