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Nun muß ich immer an dich denken[,] Dein Bild geht mit mir überall, Es flistert mir so süße Klänge Wie Liebesruf der Nachtigall. Es wiederholt, was Du gesprochen: Daß Deine Seele mich erwählt, Ich kann es Dir nicht wiedersagen Was mir Dein liebes Bild erzählt. So treu bewahr ich das Geheimniß, Das unsre Herzen eng verflicht, Daß ich dir selbst nicht anvertraue, Was mir Dein Bild sagt und verspricht. Dein Bild das nur in meinem Innern Wie eine schöne Sage lebt, So daß ein Zaubertraum mich dünket Das süße Glück, das ich erstrebt. Das süße Glück, daß Du so innig Mir all Dein Seyn ergeben hast, Daß ich nach irr'ndem Gang gefunden An Deinem Herzen Ruh und Rast. Doch fand ich Ruh? -- Mich trieb's von dannen, Weit, weit von Dir ab geht mein Lauf! Doch unsres Glückes Götterstunde Wiegt Tage, Monden, Jahre auf.
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Confirmed with Taschenbuch der Liebe und Freundschaft gewidmet 1837, ed. Dr. Stephan Schütze, Frankfurt am Main: Friedrich Wilmans, 1837, page 103.
Text Authorship:
- by Ludwig Bechstein (1801 - 1860), no title, appears in Lieder junger Liebe, no. 3 [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 Wilhelm Heiser (1816 - 1897), "Nun muss ich immer an dich denken", op. 7, published 1847 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Challier und Co. [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Now I must always think of you", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2015-08-12
Line count: 24
Word count: 143
Now I must always think of you, Your image accompanies me everywhere, It whispers such sweet sounds to me Like the love-call of the nightingale. It repeats what you have spoken: That your soul has chosen me. I cannot repeat it back to you What your dear image told me. So faithfully do I cherish the secret That tightly entwines our hearts That I do not even confide to you yourself What your image says to me and promises me. Your image, that only within me Lives like a beautiful legend, So that it seems to me like a magical dream, The sweet happiness to which I aspired. The sweet happiness that you so fervently Gave me all of your being; That after following wrong paths, I found Peace and rest upon your heart. Yet did I find rest? -- I was driven thither, Far, far from you my travels go! But the divine hour of our happiness Offsets days, moons, years.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Ludwig Bechstein (1801 - 1860), no title, appears in Lieder junger Liebe, no. 3
This text was added to the website: 2015-08-12
Line count: 24
Word count: 161