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Treue Liebe dauert lange, Überlebet manche Stund', Und kein Zweifel macht sie bange, Immer bleibt ihr Mut gesund. Dräuen gleich in dichten Scharen, Fordern gleich zum Wankelmut Sturm und Tod, setzt den Gefahren Lieb' entgegen, treues Blut. Und wie Nebel stürzt zurücke, Was den Sinn gefangen hält Und dem heitern Frühlingsblicke Öffnet sich die weite Welt. Errungen, Bezwungen Von Lieb' ist das Glück, Verschwunden Die Stunden, Sie fliehen zurück; Und selige Lust, Sie stillet, Erfüllet Die trunkene, wonneklopfende Brust; Sie scheide Von Leide Auf immer, Und nimmer Entschwinde die liebliche, selige, himmlische Lust!
F. Hensel sets stanzas 1-3
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Text Authorship:
- by Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773 - 1853), no title, appears in Liebesgeschichte der schönen Magelone und des Grafen Peter von Provence, no. 18, chapter heading: "Beschluss" [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 Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Treue Liebe dauert lange", op. 33 no. 15 (1861-65), published 1865 [ voice and piano ], from Die schöne Magelone. Romanzen aus L. Tiecks Magelone, no. 15, Winterthur, Rieter-Biedermann [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Fanny Hensel (1805 - 1847), "Minnelied des Grafen Peter von der Provence", H-U 254, stanzas 1-3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Trouwe liefde duurt niet even", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "True love lingers long", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "L'amore fedele ha lunga durata", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- TUR Turkish (Türkçe) (Gül Sabar) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 27
Word count: 93
True love lingers long, Outlives many an hour, And no doubts will make it shrink; Always will its spirits remain healthy. They menace it in thick hordes, Promoting vacillating doubt, Storm and Death, these dangers true blood opposes with Love. And, like mist, starts back What has held captive the senses, And to the merry gaze of spring the wide world opens itself. Achieved, Mastered, by Love is Happiness, Vanished are those hours, but back again they fly, And blissful delight, becomes quiet and fills the intoxicated, throbbing, joyful breast; They part from pain forever, and never will this lovely, ecstatic, heavenly joy disappear!
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773 - 1853), no title, appears in Liebesgeschichte der schönen Magelone und des Grafen Peter von Provence, no. 18, chapter heading: "Beschluss"
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 27
Word count: 104