A Transcreation of Der Lindenbaum (Schubert/Muller)

Paul Evitts over on Facebook asked if I would do a free translation of Müller's "Der Lindenbaum" (a poem used in Schubert's Winterreise (listen to this beautiful recording of it by Jonas Kaufman, here ) since I have been doing versions of others of the poems. My procedure is to run the text through a series of Google Translate operations (and sometimes a N+7 procedure) and then edit. I did this with this poem -- Zulu, Basque, Samoan, Macedonian. When I edit, I look to what I see in the changed text--and of course, what I see reflects how I'm feeling and what in going on in the world. Thus this poem suffused with grief and violence.