by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892)
Translation by Adolf Strodtmann (1829 - 1879)
The splendour falls on castle walls
Language: English
The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory: Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, O hear how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
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Es fällt der Strahl auf Burg und Thal
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Language: German (Deutsch) after the English
Es fällt der Strahl auf Burg und Thal
Und schneeige Gipfel, reich an Sagen;
Viel' Lichter wehn auf blauen Seen,
Bergab die Wasserstürze jagen.
Blas, Hifthorn, blas, im Wiederhall erschallend,
Blas, Horn -- antwortet, Echos, hallend, hallend!
O horche schnell! wie laut und hell,
Nun schwächer, sanfter, ferner klingend;
O, süß und lang von Klipp' und Hang
Die Hörner Elflands, leise singend!
Horch! durch die finstern Schluchten zieht es schallend,
Blas, Horn -- antwortet, Echos, hallend, hallend!
O Lieb, der Klang verzittert bang,
Dem letzten Ton bald magst du lauschen.
Wie tönend Erz, von Herz zu Herz
Zieht ewig unsrer Liebe Rauschen.
Blas Hifthorn, blas, im Wiederhall erschallend --
Antwortet, Echos, leis verhallend, hallend!
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- by Adolf Strodtmann (1829 - 1879), no title, appears in Lieder- und Balladenbuch amerikanischer und englischer Dichter der Gegenwart, in Lieder aus "Die Prinzessin", no. 5, first published 1862 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- a text in English by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), no title, appears in The Princess, first published 1850
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