Viele Fäden gleiten
Zwischen mir und dir,
Luftig-feine Saiten,
Drauf die Wünsche schreiten
Zwischen mir und dir.

Und aus Hin und Wider,
Wie die Fäden ziehn,
Web' ich meiner Lieder
[Seidenes]1 Gefieder
In das Dämmer hin.

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Confirmed with Paul Wertheimer, Neue Gedichte, München und Leipzig: bei Georg Müller, 1904, page 26

¹ Wolff: "seiden zart"

Text Authorship:

• by Paul Wertheimer (1874 - 1937), "Fäden" [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 Erich J. Wolff (1874 - 1913), "Fäden", op. 13 (Sechs Lieder nach verschiedenen Dichtern) no. 1, published 1907 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• ENG English [singable] (John Bernhoff) , "Strands"
• ENG English (John Glenn Paton) , "Threads", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Threads", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2009-07-16
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Word count: 36