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Als wir schieden, da war's am Himmel stürmisch und trübe, Lag die Erde [so]1 kalt, schwiegen die Vögel im Tal. Jahre schwanden indes, noch stürmt mir immer der Himmel, Liegt die Erde mir kalt, singt mir kein Vogel im Tal.
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Justinus Kerner Werke, Zweiter Teil, Gedichte, ed. Raimund Pissin, Berlin, Leipzig, Wien, Stuttgart: Deutsches Verlagshaus Bong & Co., 1914, page 192.
1 Lang: "mir"Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
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This text was added to the website: 2005-03-23
Line count: 4
Word count: 41
When we parted, the sky was stormy and forlorn, The earth lay [so cold]1, the birds fell silent in the valley. Years have passed since then, [but] for me, the sky is still stormy, The earth [still] lies cold before me, [and] no bird sings for me in the valley.
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View text without footnotesTranslated titles:
"Abschied" = "Farewell"
"An L. U[hland]" = "To L. U[hland"
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This text was added to the website: 2006-11-21
Line count: 4
Word count: 52
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