(Please Note: the following translation 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: Wie Melodien zieht es mir, Opus 105, No. 1 (SMB #120)

(As if melodies were moving through my mind; text by Groth)

The melodies I feel gently moving through my mind, like flower blooms in springtime, their fragrance wafts away. But when the words come and catch them, and bring them to my eyes, they fade in mists of grayness, and vanish like a breath. And yet a fragrance remains there enclosed within my rhymes, a scent my tearful eyes call from the silent bud.

(Approx. performance timing: 2:07)

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