Wenn ich wüßte, daß Du warten würdest,-- Wandern würde ich, wer weiß wie weit. Haus und Heimat würde ich verlassen Und die Stätten meiner Kinderzeit. Lachend würde ich mit schnellen Schritten, Durch das dunkle Thal des Todes gehn, Wüßte ich es nur, ich würde drüben, Dich und deine Augen wiedersehn.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Agnes Miegel, Gedichte, Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, 1901, page 17.
Text Authorship:
- by Agnes Miegel (1879 - 1964), "Wenn ich wüßte" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Paul Caro (1859 - 1914), "Wenn ich wüsste", op. 37 (Lieder für eine höhere Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1910 [ high voice and piano ], Wien & Leipzig: Adolf Robitscheck [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ewald Straesser (1867 - 1933), "Wenn ich wüsste", op. 20 (Fünf Lieder) no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "If I knew", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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