[Herr]1, den ich tief im Herzen trage, sei du mit mir! Du Gnadenhort in Glück und Plage, sei du mit mir! [Im Brand des Sommers, der dem Manne die Wange bräunt, Wie in der Jugend]2 [Rosenhage]3 [sei du mit mir;]2 Behüte mich am Born der Freude vor Übermuth, [Und]4 wenn ich an mir selbst verzage, sei du mit mir. [Gieb deinen Geist zu meinem Liede, daß rein es sei, Und daß kein Wort mich einst verklage, sei du mit mir.]2 Dein Segen ist wie Thau den Reben; nichts kann ich selbst, Doch daß ich kühn das Höchste wage, sei du mit mir, O du mein Trost, du meine Stärke, [mein]5 Sonnenlicht, Bis an das Ende meiner Tage [sei]6 du mit mir!
Klänge aus dem Westen. Lieder
by Julius Benedict (1804 - 1885)
1. Gebet [sung text not yet checked]
Authorship:
- by Emanuel von Geibel (1815 - 1884), "Gebet", appears in Juniuslieder, in Vermischte Gedichte [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (John H. Campbell) , "Prayer", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sarah Hoffman) , "Prayer", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Jeffrey Williams) , "Prayer", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Confirmed with Gedichte von Emanuel Geibel. Zweite Periode. Einundzwanzigste Auflage, Stuttgart, Verlag des J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1873, page 69. In other editions, "du" (referring to God) is often capitalized.
Note: in many older editions, the spelling of the capitalized word "über" becomes "Ueber", but this is often due to the printing process and not to rules of orthography, since the lower-case version is not "ueber", so we use "Über".
Modernized spelling would require changing "Übermuth" to "Übermut", "Gieb" to "Gib", "Thau" to "Tau", etc.
1 Marschner: "Du"2 omitted by Hiller
3 Fehnberger: "Rosentage" ; Marschner: "Rosentagen"; Lachner: "Rosenhain"; omitted by Hiller
4 omitted by Lachner
5 Marschner: "o du mein"
6 Marschner: "O Herr, sei"
Research team for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , John H. Campbell , Jeffrey Williams [Guest Editor]
2. Ja, wieder hab' ich dich gesehen
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3. Ob der Liebe süsse Leiden
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4. Wenn die blaue Hyacinthe
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5. Mein Herz ist eine Aeolsharfe
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Total word count: 121