[Mutter]1 zum Bienelein:
"Hüt dich vor Kerzenschein!"
Doch was die Mutter spricht,
Bienelein achtet nicht;

  Schwirret ums Licht herum,
Schwirret mit Sum-sum-sum,
Hört nicht die Mutter schrein:
"Bienelein! Bienelein!"

  Junges Blut, tolles Blut,
Treibt in die Flammengluth,
Treibt in die Flamm' hinein, --
"Bienelein! Bienelein!"

  'S flackert nun lichterroth,
Flamme gab Flammentod. --
"Hüt dich vor Mägdelein,
Söhnelein! Söhnelein!"

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Confirmed with Selections from Heine's Poems, ed by Horatio Stevens White, Boston, Heath & Co., 1907, page 65.

¹ Trenkler: "Mutter sprach warnend"; further changes may exist not shown above.

Text Authorship:

• by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), "Die Lehre", appears in Nachgelesene Gedichte 1812-1827, no. 59 [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 Beatrice Abrahams , as Beatrice Aram, "Die Lehre", published 1900? [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder, no. 4, Amsterdam : G. Alsbach & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Max Bendix (1866 - 1945), "Die Lehre", op. 10 no. 4, published 1923 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gerard Bunk (1888 - 1958), "Die Lehre", op. 22 (Sechs Lieder nach Texten verschiedener Dichter) no. 6, published c1910 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Frederick C. Fairbanks , "Die Lehre", published 1906, also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Franz (1815 - 1892), "Die Lehre", op. 41 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 5, published 1867 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Heinrich Geist , "Die Lehre", from Elf Lieder, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Adalbert von Goldschmidt (1848 - 1906), "Die Lehre", published 1893 [ voice and piano ], from Neue Lieder und Gesänge, no. 17 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ph. Heinz , "Die Lehre" [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Charles) Alfred de Kaiser (1872 - 1917), "Die Lehre", published 1906, also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
• by Andreas Kleinert (b. 1957), "Die Lehre", published c1983 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Kratz (1852? - 1897), "Käferlied", op. 21 (Drei Gesänge für vierstimmigen Männerchor) no. 2, published 1888 [ ttbb chorus ], Leipzig: Eulenberg [sung text not yet checked]
• by Georg Lothar Liebling (1865 - 1946), "Die Lehre", published 1898? [sung text not yet checked]
• by Erik Meyer-Helmund (1861 - 1932), "Die Lehre", op. 169, published 1900 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Zimmermann [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alfred Reisenauer (1863 - 1907), "Die Lehre", op. 13 (Balladen und Romanzen) no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Friedrich Schiff , "Die Lehre", op. 7 (Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Franz Suchy (1891 - ?), "Die Lehre", from Vier Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Albin Trenkler (1865 - 1923), "Die Lehre", op. 18 (Zwei heitere Lieder für vierstimmigen Männerchor) no. 1, published 1891 [ four-part men's chorus a cappella ], Magdeburg, Heinrichshofen's Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
• by Frank Valentin Van der Stucken (1858 - 1929), "Die Lehre", op. 29 (Drei Lieder) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Max Zenger (1837 - 1911), "Die Lehre", op. 29 (Fünf Duette für Sopran und Alt mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1877 [ vocal duet for soprano and alto with piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]

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• Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Frederick C. Fairbanks.
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• Also set in English, a translation by A. Grein ; composed by Alfred de Kaiser.
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• Also set in French (Français), a translation by Maurice Dufresne (d. 1953) ; composed by Tibor Harsányi.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (August Matthijs) , "Vermaning"
• ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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