Über dem Schleier die brennenden Augen, Unter dem Schleier gekräuselte Lippe: Schütze mich, Allah, bewahre mich, Allah, Gnädig vor Hochmuths abscheulicher Sippe! Gieb mir die kindliche Blume der Wiesen, Gieb mir die schwankende Winde zum Scherzen, Nur nicht die Tulpe mit duftlosem Kelche, Nur nicht den tückischen Dornzweig der Schmerzen!
Confirmed with: Rosenblätter. Lieder und Sprüche des Volkssängers und Improvisators Assim-Agha Gül hanedé, Dem Neutürkischen nachgedichtet von Bernhardine Schulze-Smidt, Leipzig: Verlag von Schmidt & Günther, 1893, page 32.
Note: in many older editions, the spelling of the capitalized word "über" becomes "Ueber", but this is often due to the printing process and not to rules of orthography, since the lower-case version is not "ueber", so we use "Über".
Authorship:
- by Bernhardine Schulze-Smidt (1846 - 1920), "Stolz (Kebir)", appears in Rosenblätter. Lieder und Sprüche des Volkssängers und Improvisators Assim-Agha Gül hanedé, in Stimmen des Gartens (Bagtsche-sedalari) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Turkish (Türkçe) by Assim-Agha Gül-Hanandé [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Heinrich Kaspar Schmid (1874 - 1953), "Stolz (Kebir)", op. 19 no. 9, published 1911-13 [ voice and piano ], from Türkisches Liederbuch, no. 9, München: Wunderhornverlag, 1917 [sung text checked 1 time]
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