Aus des Abends weißen Wogen
taucht ein Stern;
[still]1 von fern
kommt der [blasse]2 Mond gezogen.

[Fern, ach fern]3
aus des Morgens grauen Wogen,
langt der [stille]4 blasse Bogen
nach dem Stern.

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¹ Webern: "tief"
² Webern: "junge"
³ Webern: "Tief von fern,"
⁴ Webern: "große"

Text Authorship:

• by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), no title, appears in Erlösungen; eine Seelenwandlung in Gedichte und Sprüche, in Zweite Stufe: Liebe, in Natur und Sehnsucht, no. 3, first published 1891 [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 Willy Burkhard (1900 - 1955), "Tief von fern", op. 25 (Zehn Lieder) no. 7 (1930) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Siegmund von Hausegger (1872 - 1948), "Tief von fern", published 1899 [ medium voice and piano ], from Lieder und Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 30, Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
• by Anton von Webern (1883 - 1945), "Tief von fern", 1901-4, from Acht frühe Lieder, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Dmitri Sergeyevich Usov (1896 - 1944) , "Издали" ; composed by Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Michael P Rosewall) , "Downward from afar", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Venant de loin", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , "Dypt fra det fjerne", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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