Ob rauh der Herbst schon haucht

Ob rauh der Herbst schon haucht,
Und kühl die Erde ruht,
Noch wie im Sommer taucht
Der Schwan sich in die Fluth.

Er badet im Krystall
Der Wellen seine Brust,
Der welken Blätter Fall
Verdirbt ihm nicht die Lust.

Auch Liebe, treu und wahr,
Hat vor dem Frost nicht Scheu,
Sie bleibt im späten Jahr,
Im Unglück noch getreu.

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Authorship

• sometimes misattributed to Emanuel von Geibel (1815 - 1884)
• by Hermann von Lingg (1820 - 1905), no title, appears in Buch der Liebe, no. 33 [ author's text checked 1 time]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Zdenko Antonín Václav Fibich (1850 - 1900), "Ob rauh der Herbst", H. 227 no. 2 (1876), from Neue Lieder, no. 2. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]

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