Continuing our exploration of Heinrich Heine’s poetry with his “Der Atlas” as set by Franz Schubert (and performed below by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau):

Unhappy Atlas that I am,
I must bear a world,
    The whole world of sorrows.

Ich unglückseliger Atlas! Eine Welt,
Die ganze Welt der Schmerzen muss
    ich tragen.