Now action dawns | Now life has armoured me in bronze

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by Franz Ulbrich (1885 - 1950)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Nun dämmert die Tat

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Nun hat mich das Leben gepanzert in Erz,
Die Träume zerstoben aus stahlhartem Herz.
Die Rose entblättert, die Sonne glüht,
Auf herber Lippe erstirbt das Lied.
Aus Lenz und Liebe reifte die Saat,
Die Sehnsucht ging schlafen, nun dämmert die Tat.

Text Authorship:

by Franz Ulbrich (1885 - 1950) [author's text not yet checked 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 Joseph Haas (1879 - 1960), "Nun dämmert die Tat", op. 92 (Lieder der Reife und Ernte) no. 6, published 1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Now action dawns", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 41

Now action dawns

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Now life has armoured me in bronze,
The dreams were scattered from my steel-hard heart.
The rose has lost its petals, the sun burns,
Upon my bitter lips the song dies.
From out of springtime and love that which was sown has ripened,
Yearning has gone to sleep, now action dawns.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Franz Ulbrich (1885 - 1950)
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This text was added to the website: 2017-10-07
Line count: 6
Word count: 51