Tausend Tannenwipfel droh’n
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
Tausend Tannenwipfel [droh’n]1
Brausend hin und wider,
Trutz’ger Nachtwald tost und stürmt
Seine Urweltslieder.
Trübe bin ich durch die Nacht
Tief vom Tal geklommen,
Müdes Schreiten hat mir sacht
Last um Last genommen.
Toteneinsam lausche ich
In der finstren Runde,
Und die Seele stillet sich
Bis zum tiefsten Grunde.
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Confirmed with Carl Hauptmann Aus meinem Tagebuch, Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1900, page 225.
1 Teichmüller: "drohen"; more changes may exist, not noted above.
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- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Becalming", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Becalming
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
A thousand pine-tree tops threaten,
Swooshing this way and that,
The defiant night-wind blusters and storms
Its primordial songs.
Gloomily through the night I
Clambered my way from deep in the valley,
Weary treading has gently taken
Burden upon burden from me.
Deathly lonely, I hearken
In my dark surroundings,
And my soul is becalmed
To its most profound depths.
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