Brahms

From our friend Jean Z.

Dear friends, be present as you listen to the following musical selection. Von ewiger Liebe (Eternal Love) by Johannes Brahms: 

https://youtu.be/oxV1RVa2rKY?si=lBC6DjMpWQyLTzFh

Text of Von ewiger Liebe:

Dark, how dark in forest and field!

Evening already, and the world is silent.

Nowhere a light and nowhere smoke,

And even the lark is silent now too.

Out of the village there comes a lad,

Escorting his sweetheart home,

He leads her past the willow-copse,

Talking so much and of so many things:

‘If you suffer sorrow and suffer shame,

Shame for what others think of me,

Then let our love be severed as swiftly,

As swiftly as once we two were plighted.

Let us depart in rain and depart in wind,

As swiftly as once we two were plighted.’

The girl speaks, the girl says:

‘Our love cannot be severed!

Steel is strong, and so is iron,

Our love is even stronger still:

Iron and steel can both be reforged,

But our love, who shall change it?

Iron and steel can be melted down,

Our love must endure for ever!’

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Image: Romeo and Juliet by Ford Madox Brown