If within your heart, joy

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by Georg Scherer (1824 - 1909)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Ob die Freude dir im Herzen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Ob die Freude dir im Herzen
Still als duft'ge Blume blüht,
Ob mit weihevollen Schmerzen
Dich ein heil'ges Leid durchglüht:

Birg es tief im Heiligthume
Deiner Brust vor aller Welt,
Wie den Tropfen Thau die Blume
Tief im Kelch verschlossen hält!

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Georg Scherer , Dritte, vermehrte Auflage, Leipzig: Verlag von Alphons Dürr, 1870, page 18.

Text Authorship:

by Georg Scherer (1824 - 1909), "Verbirg's!", appears in Gedichte von Georg Scherer, in 1. Erstes Buch [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 Carl Machts (1846 - 1903), "Ob die Freude dir im Herzen", published 1882 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 3, Hannover: L. Oertel [sung text not yet checked]
by Max Stange (1856 - 1932), "Verbirg's!", op. 85 (Fünf Lieder für 1 tiefere Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1901 [ low voice and piano ], Leipzig, Rieter-Biedermann [sung text not yet checked]

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ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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If within your heart, joy

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

If within your heart, joy
Blooms quietly like a scented flower,
If with solemn pain
A holy suffering glows through you:

Hide it from all the world 
Deep within the sanctuary of your breast,
As a flower holds the drop of dew
Deeply sealed within its calyx!

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Translations of titles:
"Ob die Freude dir im Herzen" = "If joy within your heart"
"Verbirg's!" = "Conceal it!"

Text Authorship:

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Scherer (1824 - 1909), "Verbirg's!", appears in Gedichte von Georg Scherer, in 1. Erstes Buch
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This text was added to the website: 2025-03-29
Line count: 8
Word count: 47