Powers celestial, whose protection Ever guards the virtuos fair, While in distant climes I wander, Let my Mary be your care: Let her form sae fair and faultless, Fair and fautless as your own: Let my Mary’s kindred spirit Draw your choicest influence down. Make the gales you waft around her, Soft and peaceful as her breast; Breathing in the breeze that fans her, Soothe her bosom into rest: Guardian angels, O protect her, When in distant lands I roam; To realms unknown while fate exiles me, Make her bosom still my home.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "Prayer for Mary" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by L. G. Silbergleit ; composed by Carl Goldmark.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by (Johann) Philipp Kaufmann (1802 - 1846) , no title, appears in Gedichte von Robert Burns ; composed by Ferdinand Gumbert, Joseph Rheinberger.
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This text was added to the website: 2014-09-26
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Himmlesmächte, die ihr schirmet Holde Mädchen, schön und gut, Schützet gnädig mir Marien, Stärkt ihr theures, süßes Blut. Während in die Fern' ich fahre, Bleib' es heil gleich euch und rein. Eure schönsten Harmonieen Haucht in ihre Seele ein. Lasset eure linden Lüfte Friede wehn in ihr Gemüth, Daß durch jeden süßen Schlummer Freundlich ihr ein Traumbild zieht. Himmelsmächte, schirmt die Theure, Wann ich fahre abendwärts. Wann ich irre in der Ferne, Bleibe Heimath mir ihr Herz.
Confirmed with Robert Burns' Lieder und Balladen für deutsche Leser ausgewählt und frei bearbeitet von L. G. Silbergleit, Leipzig, Druck und Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun., 1870, pages 47-48.
Text Authorship:
Based on:
- a text in English by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "Prayer for Mary"
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Carl Goldmark (1830 - 1915), "Marie", op. 21 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2 (187-?), published 1875 [ low voice and piano ], Wien, Gotthard [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2014-07-27
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Word count: 83