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Die Perle wahrend im Gehäuse, Das seinen Schatz [umfangen]1 hält, So schifft die stille Muschel leise Durch's tiefe Wogenmeer der Welt. Der Muschel gleichen meine Lieder, Von [einer Thräne]2 sind sie schwer, Und leise zieh'n sie auf und nieder Durch meiner Schmerzen tiefes Meer.
G. Schubert sets stanza 2
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Meyer’s Groschen-Bibliothek der Deutschen Classiker für alle Stände ("Bildung macht frei!"), Volume 151, Ausgewählte Gedichte von Karl Egon Ebert, Hildburgshausen: Druck vom Bibliographischen Institut; New York: Herman J. Meyer, [1850], page 9
1 Lang: "geborgen"2 G. Schubert: "meinen Thränen"
Text Authorship:
- by Karl Egon Ebert (1801 - 1882), "Perle und Lied" [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 Hermann Finzenhagen (1825 - 1914), "Perle und Lied", op. 1 (Fünf Lieder für Tenor (oder Sopran) mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1849 [ tenor or soprano and piano ], Magdeburg, Heinrichshofen's Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
- by Josephine Lang (1815 - 1880), "Perle und Lied", 1864, published 1882 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Georgine Schubert (1840 - 1878), "Der Muschel gleichen meine Lieder", published 1880, stanza 2 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder und Gesänge, Erste Folge, no. 8, Dresden, Hoffarth [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 47
Guarding the pearl within its shell That [encloses its treasure]1, The silent mollusk softly rides Through the deep ocean wave of the world. My songs are like the mollusk; They are heavy with [a tear]2. And quietly they move up and down Through the deep ocean of my pain.
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View text without footnotesTranslated titles:
"Perle und Lied" = "Pearl and song"
"Der Muschel gleichen meine Lieder" = "My songs are like the shell"
1 Lang: "keeps its treasure safe"
2 G. Schubert: "my tears"
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Karl Egon Ebert (1801 - 1882), "Perle und Lied"
This text was added to the website: 2006-05-17
Line count: 8
Word count: 54