Bitte an den Genius
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Komm, Genius, die Schwingen breite,
heb hoch den Sinn zur Sternenweite
des himmelserdentrückten Sphären.
Und wenn ins Dunkle sich verirrt Begehren,
o strahle Licht, dein Glanz wird es verklären.

Gib Süße Daseinsbitternissen!
Schenk Trostesworte Kümmernissen!
Und in das nachtumhüllte Schweigen
wird deine Fackel! Aus dem Feuerreigen
der Götterfunken lass die Flammen steigen!

Note provided by Johann Winkler: as the text author (whose original text has not yet been located) uses several words not to be found in any lexicon, but writes a transparent grammar, stanza 1 line 3 word 1 should probably be "der" instead of "des", which makes no sense. The composer's autograph is exemplarily readable, however, so there can be no doubt about "des".


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Researcher for this page: Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2025-01-02
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Word count: 52