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by Johann Baptist Mayrhofer (1787 - 1836)

Im kalten, rauhen Norden
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Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG FRE ITA
Im kalten, rauhen Norden
Ist Kunde mir geworden
Von einer Sonnenstadt.
Wo weilt das Schiff, wo winkt der Pfad,
Die mich zu ihren Hallen tragen?
Von Menschen konnt' ich nichts erfragen, -
In Zwiespalt waren sie verloren.
Zur Blume, die sich Helios erkoren,
Die ewig in sein Antlitz blickt,
Wandt' ich mich nun, - und ward entzückt:

»Wende, so wie ich, zur Sonne
Deine Blicke! Dort ist Wonne,
Dort ist Leben; 
Treu ergeben,
Pilg're zu, und zweifle nicht;
Ruhe findest du im Licht;
Licht erzeuget alle Gluten, -
Hoffnungspflanzen, Thatenfluten!«

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•   F. Schubert 

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Johann Mayrhofer. Neue Sammlung. Aus dessen Nachlasse mit Biographie und Vorwort herausgegeben von Ernst Freih. v. Feuchtersleben. Wien, 1843. Verlag von Ignaz Klang, Buchhändler, pages 195-196.

Note: Schubert received Mayrhofer's texts in handwriting; the manuscripts of his cycle Heliopolis, dedicated to Franz von Schober, are preserved in the Vienna City Library. The printed edition of Mayrhofer's poems appeared much later and presents the texts in a revised version. This poem (originally no. 5 of the cycle) is now no. 1 of the cycle in the printed edition. Here the cycle is preceded by a motto:

Ein altes Thema, vorgetragen
In grauen Zeiten, laß uns variiren!
Wir dürfen, wenn wir auch Ikarisiren -
Uns öfters noch zur Sonne wagen!
1821.


Text Authorship:

  • by Johann Baptist Mayrhofer (1787 - 1836), "Heliopolis", appears in Heliopolis, no. 5 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 94

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