Fitne's song | Out on the burning sands

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by Heinrich Stieglitz (1801 - 1849)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Fitne's Gesang

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

   Draußen im Sandbrand
Schlagen die Männer sich
Fern bis zur Strandwand;
Einsam hier weile ich.
 
   Wonne und Schmerz lebt,
Wechselnd in rascher Gluth;
Wie mir das Herz bebt,
Heiß mich durchrinnt das Blut! --

Confirmed with Bilder des Orients von Heinrich Stieglitz, Erster Band, Leipzig, bei Carl Cnobloch, 1831, page 8.

Text Authorship:

by Heinrich Stieglitz (1801 - 1849), "Fitne's Gesang", appears in Bilder des Orients, first published 1831 [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):

by Heinrich August Marschner (1795 - 1861), "Fitne's Gesang", op. 140 no. 2, published 1849 [ voice and piano ], from Bilder des Orients von H. Stieglitz [II], no. 2, Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Fitne's song", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2015-07-02
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Fitne's song

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

   Out on the burning sands
The men battle against each other
Far, all the way to the seaside;
Solitary, I [must] tarry here.
 
   Joy and pain live,
Alternating in quick ardour;
How my heart trembles,
How searingly my blood courses through me! --

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Stieglitz (1801 - 1849), "Fitne's Gesang", appears in Bilder des Orients, first published 1831
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This text was added to the website: 2015-07-03
Line count: 8
Word count: 43