In Danzig

Dunkle Giebel, hohe Fenster,
Türme [wie]1 aus Nebel sehn.
Bleiche Statuen wie Gespenster
Lautlos an den Türen stehn.

Träumerisch der Mond drauf scheinet,
Dem die Stadt gar wohl gefällt,
Als läg' zauberhaft versteinet
Drunten eine Märchenwelt.

Ringsher durch das tiefe Lauschen,
Über alle Häuser weit,
Nur des Meeres fernes Rauschen.
Wunderbare Einsamkeit!

Und der Türmer wie vor Jahren
singet ein uraltes Lied:
Wolle Gott den Schiffer wahren,
Der bei Nacht vorüberzieht.

Translation(s): ENG FRE

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¹ Louis Ferdinand, Pfitzner : "tief"

Submitted by Jakob Kellner

Authorship

• by Josef Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857) [ 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 Louis Ferdinand, Prinz von Preußen (1907 - 1994), "In Danzig", published 1955. [
   text verified 1 time
  ]
• by Hans Erich Pfitzner (1869 - 1949), "In Danzig", op. 22 no. 1 (1907). [
   text verified 1 time
  ]
• by Justus Hermann Wetzel (1879 - 1973), "In Danzig" [
   text not verified 
  ]

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

• ENG English (Emily Ezust) , title 1: "In Danzig", copyright ©
• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , title 1: "A Dantzig", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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In Danzig

Dark gable, high window,
towers gazing out from mist...
Pale statues like ghosts
soundlessly standing by doors.

Dreamily the moon shines down
on the town it likes so much,
which lies as if magically turned to stone
below, a fairy-world.

Around, through the deep slumber,
over all the houses far and wide,
only the distant roar of the sea can be heard.
Wonderful solitude!

And the watchman, as he has for years,
sings an ancient song:
May God protect the seaman
sailing by in the night.

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• a text in German (Deutsch) by Josef Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857) FRE
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Louis Ferdinand, Prinz von Preußen, Hans Erich Pfitzner, Justus Hermann Wetzel. Go to the text.

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.