As sleeps the dreaming Eve below, Its holiest star keeps ward above, And yonder wave begins to glow, Like friendship bright'ning into Love! Ah, would thy bosom were that stream, Ne'er wooed save by the virgin air! — Ah, would that I were that star, whose beam Looks down and finds its image there!
Confirmed with Edward Bulwer Lytton, Paul Clifford, London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830, pages 262-263.
Text Authorship:
- by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873), "The Wish", appears in Paul Clifford [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Gustav Pfizer (1807 - 1890) and by Friedrich Rotter ; composed by Eduard Hanslick.
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Wenn unten sanft der Abend träumt, hält oben Wacht sein Sterngebild; mit seinem Glanz die Flut sich säumt wie Freundschaft, die zur Lieb' erschwillt. O wäre deine Brust ein See, den jungfräulich die Luft umzieht, und ich der Stern, der aus der Höh' sein Bild in diesem Spiegel sieht!
Confirmed with E. L. Bulwers sämmtliche Romane. Aus dem Englischen von Friedrich Rotter und Gustav Pfizer. Paul Clifford., Stuttgart, 1845.
Text Authorship:
- by Gustav Pfizer (1807 - 1890) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- by Friedrich Rotter [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873), "The Wish", appears in Paul Clifford
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Eduard Hanslick (1825 - 1904), "Serenade des Paul Clifford", published 1882 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder aus der Jugendzeit, no. 4, Berlin: N. Simrock [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2024-10-16
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