Nachtlied
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
Ich denk an Dich und gehe aus mir
Auf einem seligen Weg zu dir.
Dein Herz [erschreckt]1 in der Ferne.
In Deinem Garten gehst du allein.
Die Nacht ist kommen, der Mondenschein.
Uns beide sehen die Sterne.
Wie wunderbar dieses: der Erdenraum
Wird ein in sich selbst geschwundenes Kaum.
Dein Herz [erschreckt]1 in der Ferne.
Uns beide sehen die Sterne.
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Confirmed with Hans Heinrich Ehrler, Gesicht und Antlitz: Neue Gedichte, Gotha: Leopold Klotz Verlag, 1928, page 41.
1 Reutter: "erschrickt"
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- ENG English (John Glenn Paton) , "Night song", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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[Guest Editor] This text was added to the website: 2017-04-19
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Night song
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
I think of you and go out of myself
on a blissful path to you.
Your heart quickens in the distance.
In your garden you walk alone.
Night has come, moonlight.
The stars behold us both.
How marvelous this is: earth’s expanse
dwindles into itself, hardly existing.
Your heart quickens in the distance.
The stars behold us both.
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This text was added to the website: 2017-04-19
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