High up in the early morning | See how we climb up to the stars!

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by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Hoch in der Frühe

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Sieh, wie wir zu den Sternen aufsteigen!
Unsern glückstrahlenden Augen
leuchtet der Schnee der Gebirge,
bald blitzt dort unten die Sonne durch.
O! schon röten sich
Tiefen und Höhen;
durch den Rauch unsrer Atemzüge,
bis über das fernste Fünkchen dort oben
fern hinauf
schimmert die Nacht deiner Geburt,
glänzt der Tag unsrer Himmelfahrt.

Confirmed with Richard Dehmel, Gesammelte Werke in drei Bänden, Zweiter Band, Berlin: S. Fischer, 1913, pages 67-68.

Text Authorship:

by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Hoch in der Frühe", appears in Weib und Welt [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 Karol Maciej Szymanowski (1882 - 1937), "Hoch in der Frühe", op. 17 (Zwölf Lieder) no. 1 (1907), also set in Polish (Polski) [sung text checked 1 time]

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Also set in Polish (Polski), a translation by Stanisław Barącz (1864 - 1936) ; composed by Karol Maciej Szymanowski.
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ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "High up in the early morning", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Haut le matin", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-22
Line count: 11
Word count: 53

High up in the early morning

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

See how we climb up to the stars!
For our eyes, beaming with happiness,
the snow of the mountains gleams,
soon the sun shall flash through there below.
Oh! already reddening
are the depths and the heights;
through the mist of our breaths,
beyond the farthest spark there
far above
shimmers the night of your birth,
shines the day of our ascent into heaven.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Hoch in der Frühe", appears in Weib und Welt
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This text was added to the website: 2013-09-05
Line count: 11
Word count: 64