Nighttime prayer | Give us your peace, quiet night!

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by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Nachtgebet

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Gib uns deinen Frieden, stille Nacht!
Was der Tag Verdriessliches gebracht,
nimm es auf in deinen stillen Frieden!

Wo ein Herz in banger Sorge wacht,
gib ihm deinen Frieden, stille Nacht!

Seliger Traum sei allem Mühn beschieden,
das die Mitternacht herangewacht,
süsser Schlaf den Matten und den Müden!

Deinen Frieden gib uns, stille Nacht!

Confirmed with Sehnen und Suchen, Vierte Auflage, Rostock: C.J.E. Volckmann (Volckman & Wetter), 1905, page 162.

Text Authorship:

by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "Nachtgebet", appears in Sehnen und Suchen: Gedichte, in Einkehr und Wende, in Neue Ziele [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 Kaspar Schmid (1874 - 1953), "Nachtgebet", op. 10 (Vier Männerchöre) no. 2, published 1905 [ men's chorus a cappella ], München: Dr. Heinrich Lewy ; Mainz : Schott [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Nighttime prayer", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2024-01-06
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Nighttime prayer

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Give us your peace, quiet night!
Whatever irksomeness the day brought,
absorb it into your quiet peace!

Where a heart lies wakeful in uneasy anxiety,
give it your peace, quiet night!

May a blissful dream be bestowed upon all the toiling
that midnight brought with wakefulness,
[May] sweet sleep [be bestowed] upon the faint and the weary!

Give us your peace, quiet night!

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "Nachtgebet", appears in Sehnen und Suchen: Gedichte, in Einkehr und Wende, in Neue Ziele
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This text was added to the website: 2024-12-12
Line count: 9
Word count: 63