Haydn's "Life is a Dream" (Das Leben ist ein Traum)

Life is a Dream (Das Leben ist ein Traum)

"We slip into the world and float
with drunken senses, hardly awake,
after its confusion and foam,
until we no longer cleave to the earth.
And then, what is it? What is this life?
Life is a dream.

Life is a dream!
We love, our hearts pound,
and hardly is heart joined with heart
than love and jokes are empty foam
that disappears and is mourned.
What is life? I hear you ask.
Life is a dream.

Life is a dream!
We think, we doubt, we grow wise;
we arrange things in our places and spaces,
in light and shine, in vegetables and trees;
like Euler, we are winning prizes;
and yet in the grave we say this maxim:
life is a dream."

music of Joseph Haydn - piano & vocal by Franz Zebinger & Klára Takács
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I chose the painting "Portrait of Vincent van Gogh" (1887), by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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