Arise, yes, you shall arise

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by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724 - 1803)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Auferstehn, ja, auferstehn wirst du

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

  Auferstehn, ja, auferstehn wirst du, 
Mein Staub, nach kurzer Ruh!
Unsterblichs Leben 
Wird, der dich schuf, dir geben! 
Halleluja! 
 
  Wieder aufzublühn werd ich gesät!
Der Herr der Erndte geht 
Und sammelt Garben, 
Uns ein, uns ein, die starben!
Halleluja! 
 
  Tag des Danks! der Freudenthränen Tag! 
Du, meines Gottes Tag! 
Wenn ich im Grabe 
Genung geschlummert habe, 
Erweckst du mich!
 
  Wie den Träumenden wirds dann uns seyn! 
Mit Jesu gehn wir ein 
Zu seinen Freuden! 
Der müden Pilger Leiden 
Sind dann nicht mehr! 
 
  Ach, ins Allerheiligste führt mich 
Mein Mittler dann; lebt' ich 
Im Heiligthume, 
Zu seines Namens Ruhme.
Halleluja!

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• C. Bach • G. Mahler

C. Bach sets stanzas 1, 4-5
G. Mahler sets stanzas 1-2

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Confirmed with Sammlung der besten deutschen prosaischen Schriftsteller und Dichter, Neun und zwanzigster Theil, Klopstocks Lieder, Carlsruhe: bey Christian Gottlieb Schmieder, 1776, pages 57-58.

Referenced in Matthisson's An Laura, als sie Klopstocks Auferstehungslied sang.

Note: in Mahler's setting of the first two stanzas, it is the soprano and chorus singing.

Text Authorship:

by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724 - 1803), "Die Auferstehung" [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

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Arise, yes, you shall arise

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

  Arise, yes, you shall arise,
My dust, after a short rest!
He who created you, shall give you
Deathless life!
Halleluja!

  I am sown so as to bloom anew!
The Lord of the harvest goes
And gathers the sheaves,
Gathers us in, us in, we who died!
Halleluja!

  Day of gratitude! the day of tears of joy!
You, day of my God!
When in the grave
I have slumbered long enough,
You shall waken me!

  We shall then be like those who dream!
With Jesus we shall enter 
Into His joys!
The sufferings of the weary pilgrims
Shall then be no more!

  Ah, into the holiest of holies my Intercessor
Shall then lead me; if I lived
In the sanctum,
To the glory of His name.
Halleluja!

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Translations of titles:
"Auferstehen" = "Resurrection"
"Auferstehn" = "Resurrection"
"Auferstehn, ja auferstehn wirst du" = "Arise, yes, you shall arise"
"Die Auferstehung" = "The resurrection"

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