Mein Gruß

Will ich der Lieben schicken
den besten Gruß ins Haus,
such' ich ihr auf den Fluren
die schönsten Blumen aus.
Die Blumen und die Sterne,
im ganzen Weltenreich
sind sie die treusten Boten
und sinnigsten zugleich.
Was ich den Sternen sage
und was das Blümlein spricht, 
sie sagen ihr es wieder
geheim und plaudern nicht.

Translation(s): ENG

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Submitted by Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]

Authorship

• by Moritz Leiffmann [ author's text not yet checked 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 Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 - 1921), "Mein Gruß", 1898, published 1899 [voice and piano], from Junge Lieder, no. 2, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [
   text verified 1 time
  ]

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) (Malcolm Wren) , title 1: "My greeting", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Text added to the website: 2008-03-31.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:02:39
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Word count: 55

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My greeting

If I want to send my love
the best greeting to her house,
I will look for it in the fields
and choose the most beautiful flower.
Flowers and stars,
of everything in the world,
are the most faithful messengers
and also the most appropriate.
What I say to the stars
and what the flower says,
they repeat it to her
in secret and they don't gossip.

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• Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2008 by Bertram Kottmann and Malcolm Wren, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
  
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• a text in German (Deutsch) by Moritz Leiffmann
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Engelbert Humperdinck. Go to the text.

Text added to the website: 2008-03-31.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:02:39
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Word count: 67