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So gehen die Tage zu Ende ohne Klang und Sang. Ein Hauch von vergilbenden Rosen weht müde den Weg entlang. Lautlos [gleiten]1 die Blätter von fröstelnden Bäumen herab dichter und immer dichter auf des Sommers Grab. Im [Mondlicht]2 stehen die Zweige starr wie in Zaubers Bann. Aus blassen leeren Augen sieht die Nacht dich an.
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Sehnen und Suchen, Vierte Auflage, Rostock: C.J.E. Volckmann (Volckman & Wetter), 1905, page 140.
1 Sinding: "fallen"2 Kilpinen, Sinding: "Mondschein"
Text Authorship:
- by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "So gehen die Tage zu Ende . .", appears in Sehnen und Suchen: Gedichte, in Einkehr und Wende, in Einsame Wege [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), "So gehen die Tage zu Ende", op. 76 no. 1 (1932-1933?) [ voice and piano ], from Lauluja Albert Sergelin runoihin, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Christian Sinding (1856 - 1941), "So gehen die Tage", op. 77 (Sieben Gedichte) no. 7, published 1906 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, C. F. Peters [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2011-04-15
Line count: 12
Word count: 57
Thus the days come to an end without sound and singing. A breath from yellowing roses wafts wearily along the pathway. Soundlessly the leaves of shivering trees [glide]1 downward thicker and ever thicker upon the grave of summer In the moonlight the branches are as frozen as if in a spell. From out of pale empty eyes the night gazes at you.
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View text without footnotesTranslations of titles:
"So gehen die Tage" = "Thus pass the days"
"So gehen die Tage zu Ende . ." = "Thus the days come to an end"
Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "So gehen die Tage zu Ende . .", appears in Sehnen und Suchen: Gedichte, in Einkehr und Wende, in Einsame Wege
This text was added to the website: 2024-12-13
Line count: 12
Word count: 63