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So hat noch Niemand mit mir gethan. An beiden Händen faßt' er mich an Und schaute mir in die Seele So unwiderstehlich, so tief herein, Als wollt' er spähn, ob ein Fältelein Ihm etwas noch verhehle. So hat noch Niemand zu mir gesagt. Was ich gejubelt, was ich geklagt, Das schläft nun in seinem Herzen. Drum ist mir's dadrinnen wie ein Traum: Ob ich's noch selbst bin, ich weiß es kaum, Mich blendet's wie Weihnachtskerzen. So hat auch noch Niemand mich geküsst, Nicht Vater noch Mutter am heiligen Christ. Ach, alle die Liebesgaben, Wie gäb' ich sie gerne den Kindern hin, So selig und fröhlich, so reich ich bin Darf ich den Einen nur haben!
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Gedichte von Julius Grosse. In neuer, durchgesehener und vermehrter Auswahl, Berlin, G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1882, page 38.
Text Authorship:
- by Julius Waldemar Grosse (1828 - 1902), "So hat noch Niemand mit mir gethan" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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No one has treated me like this before. He took me by both hands And looked into my soul So irresistibly, so deeply into it, As if he wanted to espy whether a little wrinkle Still kept something from him. No one has told me before What I rejoiced in, what I lamented, It now sleeps in his heart. Therefore what is within his heart is like a dream to me: If I am still myself, I hardly know, I am dazzled as if by Christmas candles. No one has kissed me thus before either, Neither father nor mother upon the holy Christmas day. Ah, all the gifts of love, How gladly I would give them to the children, Since I am so happy and joyful, I am so rich I am only permitted to have the One!
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View text with all available footnotesTranslations of titles:
"Erste Liebe" = "First love"
"Mädchens erste Liebe" = "Maiden's first love"
"Mädchens erste Liebe" = "Maiden's first love"
"So hat noch niemand mit mir getan" = "No one has treated me like this before"
"So hat noch Niemand mit mir gethan" = "No one has treated me like this before"
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Julius Waldemar Grosse (1828 - 1902), "So hat noch Niemand mit mir gethan"
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