By the waterfall | Your young man is dreaming

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by Christian Reinhold (1813 - 1856)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Dein Jüngling träumet

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

   Dein Jüngling träumet
Am Wasserfall.
Das woget und schäumet
In ewigem Schwall.

   Mit Wonnegebrülle
Gießt es daher
Unendliche Fülle,
Und wird nicht leer;

   Springt auf an den Steinen,
Und stemmt sich zurück,
Hernieder zu weinen
Unsägliches Glück;

   Und sauset und blitzet
In seligem [Graus] ¹,
Und brauset und spritzet
Die Seele sich aus.

   Und obendrauf weilet
Die Sonne so mild,
In Farben zertheilet
Das göttliche Bild.

   So stürzet mein Leben,
Die Sonne du drin,
In trunkenem Beben, --
Ich weiß nicht, wohin?

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• J. Lang

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Confirmed with C. Reinhold, Gedichte, Stuttgart: Carl Mäcken, 1853, pages 18-19.

First published in the periodical Morgenblatt, April 8, 1841 (No. 84).

¹ Lang: "Braus"

Text Authorship:

by Christian Reinhold (1813 - 1856), "Der Wasserfall", written 1840, appears in Gedichte, in Lieder und vermischte Gedichte, first published 1841 [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), "Am Wasserfall", op. 12 (Sechs Lieder) no. 1 (1841), published 1845 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "By the waterfall", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2006-11-26
Line count: 24
Word count: 83

By the waterfall

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

   Your young man is dreaming
By the waterfall;
It surges and foams
With eternal swells;

   With a bellow of joy
It pours forth,
An unending abundance,
And does not become empty;

   It springs up upon the rocks,
And lifts itself back,
To pour down tears of
Unspeakable happiness.

   And bolts and flashes
In joyful [dread]¹,
And roars and sprays out
Its soul.

   And above it tarries
The sun so mild,
Fragmenting into colours
The divine image.

   Thus my life plunges along,
You the sunshine within it,
In drunken trembling,
I know not whither?

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¹ Lang: "rioting"

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Christian Reinhold (1813 - 1856), "Der Wasserfall", written 1840, appears in Gedichte, in Lieder und vermischte Gedichte, first published 1841
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This text was added to the website: 2006-11-26
Line count: 24
Word count: 96