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by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724 - 1803)

Die Sommernacht
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Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG ENG FRE HEB
  Wenn der Schimmer von dem Monde nun herab
In die Wälder sich ergießt, und Gerüche
Mit den Düften von der Linde
In den Kühlungen wehn;

  So umschatten mich Gedanken an das Grab
Der Geliebten, und ich seh' in dem Walde
Nur es dämmern, und es weht mir
Von der Blüthe nicht her.

  Ich genoß einst, o ihr Todten, es mit euch!
Wie umwehten uns der Duft und die Kühlung,
Wie verschönt warst von dem Monde,
Du, o schöne Natur!

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Confirmed with Klopstocks Oden. Erster Band. Leipzig bey Georg Joachim Göschen. 1798, page 234; and with Oden von Klopstock. WIEN, gedruckt bey Joh. Thomas Edlen von Trattnern, k.k. Hofdruckern und Buchhändlern. 1784, pages 218-219.


Text Authorship:

  • by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724 - 1803), "Die Sommernacht", written 1766 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

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