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Vor [Tau und Tag]1 Bin ich erwacht. Auf Erden lag Noch Mitternacht. Vor [Tag und Tau]2 Gedacht ich dein.-- Das Morgengrau Gab noch nicht Schein. Wohl kennt mein Sinn Der Sonne Lauf; Die Nacht geht hin, Sie kommt herauf. Doch unbewußt Bleibt, weil sie klagt, Wann meiner Brust Ihr Morgen tagt; Weil ohne Trost Mein Auge weint, Wann ihm von Ost Dein Tag erscheint. Ich such umsonst, Und wär's auf Knien, Dich, wo Du thronst, Herabzuziehn. Dein ist die Huld Und mein die Pflicht: Die Ungeduld Bewegt Dich nicht. Drum bleib es Dir Anheimgestellt: Erscheine mir, [Wann]3 dir's gefällt. Du kennst die Frist, Nur Du allein: Wenn's zeitig ist, Wird Morgen sein.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Rudolf Alexander Schröder, Gesammelte Werke in Fünf Bänden, Erster Band, Die Gedichte, Berlin und Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1952, pages 746-747.
1 Schelb: "Tag und Tau"2 Schelb: "Tau und Tag"
3 Schelb: "Wenn"
Text Authorship:
- by Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1878 - 1962), "Vor Tau und Tag", written 1927, appears in Gedichte, in Die Geistlichen Gedichte, in 1. Erstes Buch: Mitte des Lebens, in Vor Tau und Tag [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 Josef Schelb (1894 - 1977), "Vor Tau und Tag", from 4 Lieder der Besinnung, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Before dew and daylight", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Dr. Albert Schelb
This text was added to the website: 2018-03-19
Line count: 36
Word count: 115
Before [dew and daylight]1 I awoke. Upon earth still Lay midnight. Before [daylight and dew]1 I thought of you.-- The grey light of morning Had not yet appeared. My spirit well knows The course of the sun; The night passes on, [The sun] comes up. But it remains unknown [to me] Whilst it laments, When for my bosom Its morning shall dawn; Because my eye weeps Without comfort, When in the East Your day appears to it. I attempt in vain, And were it upon my knees, To draw you down [to me]. From where you sit in majesty, Yours is the benevolence And mine the duty: [My] impatience Does not move you. Therefore may it be Commended unto you: Appear to me When it pleases you. You know the time, Only you alone: When it is time, It shall be morning.
1 Schelb: "daylight and dew"
2 Schelb: "dew and daylight"
Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1878 - 1962), "Vor Tau und Tag", written 1927, appears in Gedichte, in Die Geistlichen Gedichte, in 1. Erstes Buch: Mitte des Lebens, in Vor Tau und Tag
This text was added to the website: 2024-03-22
Line count: 36
Word count: 144