Spring song | Everything is resting in pious dreaming

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by Franz Alfred Muth (1839 - 1890)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Alles liegt in frommen Träumen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Alles liegt in frommen Träumen,
Jeder Berg und jedes Thal;
Wunderbar rauscht's in den Bäumen
Bei dem ersten Mondenstrahl.

Erd' und Himmel leise sprechen
Wie in Heimweh tief bewußt,
Und hervor die Thränen brechen
Mir aus heimwehkranker Brust.

Heilig Heimweh du, nach Eden,
Ohne Sünde, ohne Weh,
Wo die Blumen innig beten,
Wo beim Wolfe [ruht]¹ das Reh.

Neuer Himmel, neue Erde,
Unbefleckt und unentweiht; --
O, so sprich das zweite: "Werde!"
Starker Herr der Ewigkeit.

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• J. Rheinberger

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Confirmed with Franz Alfred Muth, Waldblumen. Lieder, Frankfurt am Main: Verlag von G.J. Hamacher, 1872, page 6.

¹ Rheinberger: "liegt"

Text Authorship:

by Franz Alfred Muth (1839 - 1890), no title, appears in Waldblumen, in Naturstimmen und Lebensklänge [1st edition], in Frühlingslieder , no. 2 [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 Joseph (Gabriel) Rheinberger (1839 - 1901), "Frühlingslied", op. 85 no. 5 (1874) [ TTBB chorus ], from Aus dem Sängerleben, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Spring song", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Bertram Kottmann , Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor], Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2020-01-23
Line count: 16
Word count: 76

Spring song

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Everything is resting in pious dreaming,
Every mountain and every valley;
At the first moonbeam there is 
A wondrous soughing in the trees.

Earth and Heaven speak quietly
As if deeply aware in homesickness,
And tears break forth 
From my homesick bosom.

Ye holy homesickness for Eden,
Without sin, without pain,
Where the flowers pray fervently,
Where the deer [rests]¹ beside the wolf.

New Heaven, new earth,
Unsullied and undefiled; --
O, therefore speak the second: "Be!"
Mighty Lord of eternity.

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¹ Rheinberger: "lies"

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Franz Alfred Muth (1839 - 1890), no title, appears in Waldblumen, in Naturstimmen und Lebensklänge [1st edition], in Frühlingslieder , no. 2
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This text was added to the website: 2022-12-20
Line count: 16
Word count: 81