Siehst du den Stern im fernsten Blau

Siehst du den Stern im fernsten Blau,
Der [zitternd]1 fast erbleicht?
Sein Licht braucht eine Ewigkeit,
Bis es dein Aug' erreicht!

Vielleicht vor tausend Jahren schon
Zu Asche stob der Stern,
Und doch [sehn seinen lieblichen]2 Schein
[Wir dort noch]3 still und fern.

Dem Wesen solchen Scheines gleicht,
Der ist und doch nicht ist,
O Lieb', dein anmutvolles Sein,
Wenn du gestorben bist!

Translation(s): ENG FRE

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Confirmed with Sämtliche Werke von Gottfried Keller: Romane + Erzählungen + Gedichte + Essays + Tagebücher + Briefe, Musaica Books, 2017.

Authorship

• by Gottfried Keller (1819 - 1890), no title, appears in Neuere Gedichte, in Aus der Brieftasche, no. 4 [ 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 Siegmund von Hausegger (1872 - 1948), "Siehst du den Stern", published <<1905 [medium voice and piano], from Drei Lieder, no. 1, Leipzig, C. F. Kahnt [ sung text checked 1 time]
• by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Siehst du den Stern", op. 55 no. 3 (1941-3) [mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano], from Unter Sternen: Lieder und Gesänge nach Gedichten von Gottfried Keller, no. 3, Wien: Universal Edition [ sung text checked 1 time]
• by Christian Sinding (1856 - 1941), "Siehst du den Stern", op. 11 (Lieder und Gesänge) no. 2, published 1888. [medium voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

• ENG English (John Glenn Paton) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Stéphane Goldet) (Pierre de Rosamel) , "Vois-tu l'étoile", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Vois‑tu l'étoile

Vois-tu l'étoile au plus loin de l'azur
dans son pâlissant scintillement ?
Sa lumière a pour elle l'éternité,
jusqu'à ce qu'elle atteigne tes yeux !

Peut-être depuis un millier d'années
a-t-elle été réduite en cendres, cette étoile ;
mais son doux éclat parvient encore
dans l'éternel silence des lointains.

Ces clartés sont comme ce qui vit,
qui est puis n'est plus.
O amour, ta délicieuse persistance
quand tu es mort !

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• a text in German (Deutsch) by Gottfried Keller (1819 - 1890), no title, appears in Neuere Gedichte, in Aus der Brieftasche, no. 4 ENG
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Siegmund von Hausegger, Othmar Schoeck, Christian Sinding. Go to the text.

Text added to the website: 2012-09-15.
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