260: Herr, aller Weisheit Quell und Grund.

Herr, aller Weisheit Quell und Grund.--(Goed. 260.)

Appeared in Crü. Praxis, 1661, 576, no. 373.

English Version:

A complete and very good translation by J. Kelly. The long metre of 8 syllables seems to lend itself more readily to adaptation into English. In the fourth stanza, first line, Kelly has resorted to a device common to translators, that of making up the extra accent where the corresponding English cognate has lost the ending, by selecting instead of a monosyllabic adverb an adverb of two syllables. Here, of course, "very" for "sehr" makes literality and meter perfect.

As exact and appropriate translation as is possible word for word is found in stanza ???: