Duften nicht die Laubengänge?
Hör' ich nicht [die Wipfel säuseln]1,
[Linde]2 Maienwinde kräuseln
[Den umbüschten stillen Rhein]3;
Daß mich nicht der Mittag senge,
Winken mir [verstohl'ne]4 Schatten,
[Rosenhage]5, Veilchenmatten,
Aber ach, ich bin allein!
 
Unterm blattgewebten Teppich
Hör' ich Nachtigallen schlagen,
Und die [leichtern]6 Echo tragen
Ihre Töne durch den Hain;
Längs der Eiche dehnt sich Eppich,
[Wassernymphen]7 lockt die Quelle,
Wo mit Welle lispelt Welle,
Aber ach, ich bin allein.

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Confirmed with Gesammelte Werke des Grafen August von Platen, Stuttgart und Tübingen: J.G. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1839, page 4."

Notes
Stanza 1, line 4: in Lang's first edition, this line was "Den umbebüschten stillen Rain"; in the 1866 and 1882 editions this line became "Im bebüschten stillen Rain".
Stanza 1, line 7, word 1: in Lang's 1866 edition, this was replaced with "Rosenhayn und", and in the 1882 edtion, "Rosenhain und".
Stanza 2, line 5, word 1: in Lang's first edition, there was a typo here: "Langs"
Stanza 2, line 5, word 6: in Lang's 1882 edition, there was a typo here: "Teppich"

¹ Lang: "der Wipfel Säuseln"
² Lang: "Leise"
³ Lang: "Im bebüschten stillen Rain"
⁴ Lang: "verstohlen"
⁵ Lang: "Rosenhain und"
⁶ Lang: "leichten"
⁷ Lang: "Wasser-Nymphe"

Text Authorship:

• by August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796 - 1835), "1815", appears in Lieder und Romanzen [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 Josephine Lang (1815 - 1880), "Sehnsucht", op. 4 (Vier deutsche Lieder) no. 4, published 1833 [ voice and piano ], note: originally published without opus; designated in 1867 as opus 4 ; München und Bern: Joseph Aibl ; republished in Franz Hauser's Gesanglehre, Leipzig & Brüssel: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1866], pages 148-149 and in 40 Lieder, Leipzig & Brüssel: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1882
      Publisher: Certosa Verlag [external link]  [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Philip Wolfrum (1854 - 1919), "Duften nicht die Laubengänge", op. 15 (Lieder und Gesänge für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, 3. Heft) no. 1 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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