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Wie sich's so wohl im Grase liegt Bei Kraut und Blumendüften, [Wenn über uns ein]1 Vogel fliegt In goldnen Himmelslüften. Da kann man wahrlich denken nicht, Daß man bald liegen werde Tief unten ohne Sang und Licht Bei Wurzeln in der Erde. Man denkt nur an des Himmels Schein Und an den Vogel drinnen, Denkt: Gott wird wohl so gnädig sein, Daß wir auch das gewinnen.
Confirmed with: Kerners Werke, Zweiter Teil, Gedichte, ed. Raimund Pissin, Berlin, Leipzig, Wien, Stuttgart: Deutsches Verlagshaus Bong & Co., 1914, page 130.
1 Vesque von Püttlingen: "Dieweil ob uns der" (this might be from an earlier edition of Kerner's poem)Text Authorship:
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How well one feels lying in the grass Among the scents of herbs and flowers, [When]1 above us a bird flies In the golden breezes of the heavens. There one can truly not think That one soon shall lie Deep down below without song and light Among the roots of the earth. One thinks only of the glow of the heavens And of the bird in it, Thinks: God shall surely be so merciful That we, too, shall achieve that.
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