Through blooming lands | My pathway leads through blooming lands

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by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Durch blühende Lande geht mein Weg

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FIN

Durch blühende Lande geht mein Weg,
und mit den Wolken geht mein Traum,
bald schlaf ich unterm Brückensteg
und bald im Feld am Lindenbaum.

Die schlimmste Sorge bleibt mir fern,
zufrieden ist mein Wanderblick;
und leuchtet mir kein heller Stern,
so trügt mich auch kein Alltagsglück.

Nur neulich, als im Abendrot
ein junger Fant nach Hause kam,
sein junges Weib den Mund ihm bot
und er ans Herz die Kinder nahm:

Da fiel auch mich ein Sehnen an
nach Weib und Kind und eigenem Herd . . 
Verstohlen meine Träne rann,
und still hab ich mich abgekehrt.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• Y. Kilpinen

Y. Kilpinen sets stanzas 1-2

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Confirmed with Sehnen und Suchen, Vierte Auflage, Rostock: C.J.E. Volckmann (Volckman & Wetter), 1905, page 68.

Text Authorship:

by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), no title, appears in Sehnen und Suchen: Gedichte, in Schweifen, o Schweifen!, in Vagus Scholasticus, no. 8 [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 Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "Durch blühende Lande", op. 76 no. 11 (1932-1933?), stanzas 1-2 [ voice and piano ], from Lauluja Albert Sergelin runoihin, no. 11 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Through blooming lands", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Läpi kukkivien maiden käy tieni", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2019-10-23
Line count: 16
Word count: 97

Through blooming lands

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

My pathway leads through blooming lands,
and my dream travels with the clouds,
sometimes I sleep under the bridge
and sometimes in the field by the linden tree.

The most dreadful anxiety remains far from me,
my wanderer's gaze is content;
and though no bright star may shine for me,
I am also not deceived by any everyday happiness.

But recently, when in the evening glow
a young jackanapes came home,
his young wife offered him her lips
and he held his children to his heart:

Then I, too, was assailed by a yearning
For wife and child and my own hearth . . 
My tears ran stealthily
and I quietly turned away.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), no title, appears in Sehnen und Suchen: Gedichte, in Schweifen, o Schweifen!, in Vagus Scholasticus, no. 8
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This text was added to the website: 2024-02-16
Line count: 16
Word count: 113