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Der Bräutigam: Ich lese Lieder aus fremden Seelen, aber alle Lieder künden mir nur dich und deine Seele. Und über Wiesen schau ich und tausende Blumen, aber überall seh ich nur dich und die Blume deiner Schönheit. Komm, o komm, du meiner Seele lebendiges Gedicht, du meiner Seele atmende Blume, komm! Komm, du mein Leben! Wie du so bebst! Gib, gib mir deine Hand! Ich habe mich so sehr nach dir gesehnt, und wie du kamst, bin ich erschrocken. Die Braut: Ich habe mich nach dir so bang gesehnt; nun bin ich froh. Mir wars, mich führte Wer zu dir, und einer spräche leis an meinem Ohr: Geh hin, geh hin, heut überschattet dich an seiner Brust das tiefe, tiefe Glück, in dem der Sonne Aufgang ist und Niedergang! Und mir ward bange, da ich zu dir ging. Nun bin ich froh. Der Brautführer: Sterne führ ich einander zu im Kreislauf geketteter Ewigkeiten und bin im Aneinanderflügeln des Mückentanzes. Von meinem Atem getragen fliegen die Samenstäubchen aus Blütennarben in Blütenkelche, und was ich raune, bebt im Herzen der Braut und läßt die Brust des Bräutigams drängend gehn. Wohin ich führe, braucht ihr nicht zu fragen. Fühlt euch, so fühlt ihr mich. Ich segne euch.
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Confirmed with Der neubestellte Irrgarten der Liebe, Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1906, page 413.
Note: extra line breaks have been added to fit the text onto the screen.Authorship:
- by Otto Julius Bierbaum (1865 - 1910), "Brautführer Tod", appears in Der neubestellte Irrgarten der Liebe, an excerpt from a longer poem [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 Hans August Friedrich Zincke genannt Sommer (1837 - 1922), "Der Brautführer", 1901, published 1903 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, in the magazine Die Musikwoche [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "The groomsman Death", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2015-06-24
Line count: 32
Word count: 204
The groom: I read poems emanating from other souls, but all the poems only tell me of you and your soul. And over meadows I gaze and [over] thousands of flowers, but everywhere I see only you and the flower of your beauty. Come, oh come, you the living poem of my soul, you my soul's breathing flower, come! Come, you my life! How you tremble! Give, give me your hand! I have longed for you so much, and as you came, I was startled. The bride: I yearned for you so anxiously; now I am glad. It seemed to me as if someone led me toward you and someone spoke quietly in my ear: Go hither, go hither, today upon his bosom you shall be overshadowed by the deep, deep happiness, in which lies the sun's rising and its setting! And I became anxious as I went to you. Now I am glad. The groomsman: I lead stars to other stars in the cycle of linked eternities and I am in the wings beating against wings of the mosquitoes' dance. Carried by my breath the pollen flies from stamens into calyces, and what I murmur trembles in the heart of the bride and causes the bosom of the bridegroom to throb urgently. Whither I lead them, you need not ask. If you feel yourselves, you feel me. I bless you.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Otto Julius Bierbaum (1865 - 1910), "Brautführer Tod", appears in Der neubestellte Irrgarten der Liebe, an excerpt from a longer poem
This text was added to the website: 2015-06-24
Line count: 32
Word count: 231