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Vom Nachen getragen, Mein Nachen [versinket]1, Mein Leben verklaget, Die Zukunft [ertrinket]2. Im Schilf ist ein Rauschen, Im Grase ein Säuseln, Die Vögel, sie lauschen, Die Wellen, sie kreiseln, Die Sterne, sie schießen, Und grüßen die Quellen, Die Quellen, sie fließen Zum Meere als Wellen. Da finden sich wieder, Die hier sich verloren, Der Liebe Gebrüder Im Thale geboren. Des Schaumes Gefieder Erglänzt im Gesange, Ich höre die Lieder, Ich athme schon bange.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Ariel's Offenbarungen. Roman., herausgegeben von L. A. von Arnim, Erstes Buch, Göttingen: Bey Heinrich Dieterich, 1804, pages 133-134
1 Bettina von Arnim: "versenket"1 Bettina von Arnim: "versinket"
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- by Karl Joachim ("Achim") Friedrich Ludwig von Arnim (1781 - 1831), no title, appears in Ariel’s Offenbarungen [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- by Bettina von Arnim, née Brentano (1785 - 1859), "Vom Nachen getragen" [duet] [ sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Carried by the barque, My barque [sinks]1, My life dissolves in lamenting, The future [drowns.2 There is a soughing in the reeds, In the grass a rustling, The birds, they listen, The waves, they circle. The stars, they come shooting And greet the well-springs, The well-springs, they flow To the sea as waves. There those who here have lost each other Find each other again, The brethren of love Born in the valley. The plumage of the foam Shines in singing, I hear the songs, I already breathe anxiously.
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View original text (without footnotes)Translation of title "Vom Nachen getragen" = "Carried by the barque"
1 Bettina von Arnim: "is becoming engulfed"
1 Bettina von Arnim: "sinks"
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Karl Joachim ("Achim") Friedrich Ludwig von Arnim (1781 - 1831), no title, appears in Ariel’s Offenbarungen