Powers celestial, whose protection Ever guards the virtuos fair, While in distant climes I wander, Let my Mary be your care: Let her form sae fair and faultless, Fair and fautless as your own: Let my Mary’s kindred spirit Draw your choicest influence down. Make the gales you waft around her, Soft and peaceful as her breast; Breathing in the breeze that fans her, Soothe her bosom into rest: Guardian angels, O protect her, When in distant lands I roam; To realms unknown while fate exiles me, Make her bosom still my home.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "Prayer for Mary" [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):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by L. G. Silbergleit ; composed by Carl Goldmark.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by (Johann) Philipp Kaufmann (1802 - 1846) , no title, appears in Gedichte von Robert Burns ; composed by W. Cramer, Ferdinand Gumbert, Joseph Rheinberger, Alexander Winterberger.
Researcher for this page: Rudi Spring
This text was added to the website: 2014-09-26
Line count: 16
Word count: 93
[Himmelsbote]1, Strahl der Sterne, Der ob schöner Unschuld wacht, Wenn ich irr' in weiter Ferne, Schütz Maria deine Macht. [Hold]2 voll Huld und ohne Fehle, Hold und rein und klar wie du, Auf Marias reiner Seele Mit dem hellsten Scheine ruh. [Laue Lüfte]3, mild ihr lächelt, Leise weht ihr Kühlung zu; Linder Hauch der sie umfächelt, Wiege sanft ihr Herz in Ruh. Und ein Engel auf sie blicke, Wenn ich [irr']4 am fernen Strand; Fern von ihr verbannt vom Glücke, Sey ihr Herz mein Heimathland.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Gedichte von Robert Burns. Übersetzt von Philipp Kaufmann, Stuttgart und Tübingen, Verlag der J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1839, p. 137.
Note: there is a typo in the Cramer score in stanza 4, line 3: word 6 is "Glaube" instead of "Glücke".
1 Cramer, Gumbert: "Himmelslüfte"2 Cramer: "So"
3 Cramer: "Frühlingslüfte"
4 Cramer: "klag'"
Text Authorship:
- by (Johann) Philipp Kaufmann (1802 - 1846), no title, appears in Gedichte von Robert Burns [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "Prayer for Mary"
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by W. Cramer (flourished c1848), "An Maria", published 1848 [ voice and piano ], from 4 Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte-Begleitung, no. 3, Mainz, Schott [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ferdinand Gumbert (1818 - 1896), "Maria", op. 2 (6 Lieder für Sopran oder Tenor) no. 2, published 1843 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph (Gabriel) Rheinberger (1839 - 1901), "Himmelsbote, Strahl der Sterne", JWV 129 no. 2 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alexander Winterberger (1834 - 1914), "Himmelsbote", op. 10 (20 Gesänge) no. 14, published 1862 [ soprano or tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website: 2014-07-27
Line count: 16
Word count: 91