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Six songs , opus 9

by Rosa Guerini née Wilberforce

2. The wave  [sung text not yet checked]

"Whither, thou turbid wave?
Whither, with so much haste,
As if a thief wert thou?"
"I am the Wave of Life,
Stained with my margin's dust;
From the struggle and the strife
Of the narrow stream I fly
To the Sea's immensity,
To wash from me the slime
Of the muddy banks of Time."

Authorship:

  • by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), "The wave", appears in Voices of the Night, first published 1839 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Christoph August Tiedge (1752 - 1841), "Die Welle", appears in Elegien und vermischte Gedichte, in Vermischte Gedichte
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