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Ist [auch]1 schmuck nicht mein Rößlein, So [ist's]2 doch [recht]1 klug, Trägt im Finstern zu 'nem Schlößlein Mich rasch noch genug. Ist das Schloß auch nicht prächtig, [Zum Garten aus]3 der Thür Tritt ein [Mädchen doch]4 allnächtig Dort freundlich herfür. Und ist auch [die]5 Kleine [Nicht die Schönst']6 auf der Welt, So gibt's doch [just]7 Keine, Die [mir besser]8 gefällt. Und spricht sie vom Freien: So schwing' ich mich [auf mein]9 Roß -- Ich bleibe [im]10 Freien, Und sie auf dem Schloß.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Joseph Freiherrn von Eichendorff's sämmtliche Werke, Zweite Auflage, Erster Band, Biographische Einleitung und Gedichte, Leipzig: Voigt & Günther, 1864, page 246.
1 omitted by B. Walter2 Wallnöfer: "ist es"
3 B. Walter: "Aus dem Garten vor"
4 Sommer: "Mädchen"
5 Wallnöfer: "meine"
6 Wallnöfer: "Die Schönst' nicht"
7 Wallnöfer: "sicherlich"
8 Wallnöfer: "besser mir"
9 Wallnöfer: "aufs"
10 Wallnöfer: "fern im"
Authorship:
- by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), no title, appears in Gedichte, in 1. Wanderlieder, in Der Soldat, no. 1 [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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Der Soldat", c1920-23 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eduard Behm (1862 - 1946), "Der Soldat", op. 8 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 6, published 1891 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Raabe & Plothow  [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Emmerich (1836 - 1891), "Der Soldat", op. 21 (Acht Gesänge) no. 3, published 1861 [ voice and piano ], Frankfurt a/M., Henkel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jan Karol Gall (1856 - 1912), "Der Soldat", op. 9 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1889 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Leuckart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georg Haeser (1865 - 1945), "Der Soldat", op. 37 (Vier Lieder von Joseph von Eichendorff) no. 2, published [192-?] [ voice and piano ; or men's chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Ludwig) Bernhard Hopffer (1840 - 1877), "Der Soldat", op. 22 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1877 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger [sung text not yet checked]
- by Armin Knab (1881 - 1951), "Der Soldat", published 1911 [ voice and guitar ], Munich: Verlag Gitarrefreund [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Friedrich Niggli (1875 - 1959), "Der Soldat", op. 3 (Sechs Lieder) no. 4, published 1899 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Hug & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Martin Plüddemann (1854 - 1897), "Der Soldat", op. 50 (Drei Gedichte für Männerchor) no. 2, published 1898 [ men's chorus ], Leipzig, Rob. Forberg [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans August Friedrich Zincke genannt Sommer (1837 - 1922), "Der Soldat", op. 9 (Lieder nach Gedichten von Eichendorff's) no. 4 (1885), published 1886 [ medium voice and piano ], Braunschweig, Litolff [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Adolf Wallnöfer (1854 - 1946), "Der Soldat", op. 89 (Vier Volkslieder für eine Singstimme mit Clavierbegleitung) no. 2 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Adolf Wallnöfer (1854 - 1946), "Der Soldat", op. 89b (Vier Gesänge im Volkston) no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Bruno Walter (1876 - 1962), "Der Soldat", 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder von Josef von Eichendorff, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903), "Der Soldat I" [ voice and piano ], from Eichendorff-Lieder, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Josef Venantius von Wöss (1863 - 1943), "Der Soldat", op. 18 no. 4, published 1910 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "El soldat I", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "The soldier", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le soldat", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Stéphane Goldet) (Pierre de Rosamel) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Anche se non è elegante il mio cavallo", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 82
Although my horse may not look so handsome, he is actually quite clever, and will carry me through the dark to a certain little castle quickly enough. Although the castle is not very splendid, out of her door and into the garden steps a maiden who, all night, will be friendly to me. And although this small girl is not the fairest in the world, there is still no other that I like better. But if she speaks of marriage, I'll leap onto my horse - I'll stay free and she'll stay at the castle.
Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), no title, appears in Gedichte, in 1. Wanderlieder, in Der Soldat, no. 1
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 96