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Dein Jüngling träumet Am Wasserfall. Das woget und schäumet In ewigem Schwall. Mit Wonnegebrülle Gießt es daher Unendliche Fülle, Und wird nicht leer; Springt auf an den Steinen, Und stemmt sich zurück, Hernieder zu weinen Unsägliches Glück; Und sauset und blitzet In seligem [Graus] 1, Und brauset und spritzet Die Seele sich aus. Und obendrauf weilet Die Sonne so mild, In Farben zertheilet Das göttliche Bild. So stürzet mein Leben, Die Sonne du drin, In trunkenem Beben, -- Ich weiß nicht, wohin?
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with C. Reinhold, Gedichte, Stuttgart: Carl Mäcken, 1853, pages 18-19.
First published in the periodical Morgenblatt, April 8, 1841 (No. 84).
1 Lang: "Braus"Text Authorship:
- by Christian Reinhold (1813 - 1856), "Der Wasserfall", written 1840, appears in Gedichte, in Lieder und vermischte Gedichte, first published 1841 [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 Josephine Lang (1815 - 1880), "Am Wasserfall", op. 12 (Sechs Lieder) no. 1 (1841), published 1845 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "By the waterfall", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2006-11-26
Line count: 24
Word count: 83
Your young man is dreaming By the waterfall; It surges and foams With eternal swells; With a bellow of joy It pours forth, An unending abundance, And does not become empty; It springs up upon the rocks, And lifts itself back, To pour down tears of Unspeakable happiness. And bolts and flashes In joyful [dread]1, And roars and sprays out Its soul. And above it tarries The sun so mild, Fragmenting into colours The divine image. Thus my life plunges along, You the sunshine within it, In drunken trembling, I know not whither?
1 Lang: "rioting"
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Christian Reinhold (1813 - 1856), "Der Wasserfall", written 1840, appears in Gedichte, in Lieder und vermischte Gedichte, first published 1841
This text was added to the website: 2006-11-26
Line count: 24
Word count: 96