First blossoming tree | Look!/ A blossoming tree in a verdant meadow!

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by Friedrich Speiser

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Erster Blütenbaum

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Schau!
Ein Blütenbäumchen in grünender Au!
Ringsum die Bäume allzumal
Sind ohne Blätter, sind steif und kahl.
Woher nahm dies eine sein Blütenkleid?
Hat ein Engelsgefieder es überschneit?
Ist meine (mein) Liebste(r) hier gegangen
Mit hellem Blick und roten Wangen
Und hat das Bäumchen aufgeweckt
Mit lust'gem Sang es wachgeschreckt,
Dass es blütenübersät
Sein Köpfchen nach der Sonne dreht?
Schau!
Ein Blütenbäumchen in grünender Au!

Text Authorship:

by Friedrich Speiser [author's text not yet checked 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 Frida Kern, née Seitz (1891 - 1988), "Erster Blütenbaum", note: the singer may decide whether the beloved is male or female [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "First blossoming tree", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2009-05-14
Line count: 14
Word count: 65

First blossoming tree

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Look!
A blossoming tree in a verdant meadow!
All the trees roundabout
Are without leaves, are stiff and bare.
From where did this one take its garb of blossoms?
Did the plumage of an angel snow down upon it?
Did my beloved walk here
With bright eyes and red cheeks
And awaken the little tree,
With merry singing startle it awake,
So that, bestrewn with blossoms,
It turns its little head toward the sun?
Look!
A blossoming tree in a verdant meadow!

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2009 by Sharon Krebs, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Speiser
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This text was added to the website: 2009-05-14
Line count: 14
Word count: 82