Travel off, you dear quiet songs

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by Oscar von Redwitz-Schmölz (1823 - 1891)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Zieht hin, ihr lieben stillen Lieder

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Zieht hin, ihr lieben stillen Lieder
Zu meiner süßen Amaranth!
In ihrem Herzen laßt euch nieder,
Es ist ja euer Vaterland!

Sagt ihr, ihr seiet kleine Sterne
Vom Himmel, den sie mir geschenkt!
Und zöget her aus weiter Ferne,
Zu fragen, ob sie mein gedenkt!

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Confirmed with Oscar v. Redwitz, Amaranth, vierundreißigste Auflage, Mainz: Verlag von Franz Kirchheim, 1882, page 223.

Note: in Goldschmidt's handwritten copy at the BSB, stanza 2 line 1 word 4, "seiet", was written under the notes but crossed out and replaced by "wäret", possibly by another hand.

Text Authorship:

by Oscar von Redwitz-Schmölz (1823 - 1891), no title, appears in Amaranth, in Nachts, in 4. An Amaranth, no. 1 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

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Travel off, you dear quiet songs

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Travel off, you dear quiet songs
To my sweet Amaranth!
Settle yourselves in her heart,
For it is your homeland!

Tell her that you are little stars
From the heaven that she has given me!
And that you have travelled hither from the far distance
To ask if she is thinking of me!

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Translations of title(s):
"Amaranth" = "Amaranth"
"An Amaranth" = "To Amaranth"
"Botschaft" = "Message"
"Walters Lied an Amaranth" = "Walter's song to Amaranth"
"Widmung" = "Dedication"
"Zieht hin ihr lieben stillen Lieder" = "Travel off you dear quiet songs"
"Zieht hin, ihr stillen Lieder" = "Travel off, you quiet songs"

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Oscar von Redwitz-Schmölz (1823 - 1891), no title, appears in Amaranth, in Nachts, in 4. An Amaranth, no. 1
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