[Frühling]1 war's in allen Zweigen,
Und die braune Drossel sang,
Und an deiner Schulter lehnt' ich,
O, wie war ich froh und bang!

Bin zu Füßen dir gesessen,
Hab' in [Wonnen]2 dich geküßt,
Und kann's nimmermehr vergessen,
Was du mir gewesen bist!

Nimmermehr in all den Tagen,
[Nimmer in der langen]3 Zeit - - -
Was du mir getan zu Liebe,
Was du mir getan zu Leid'!

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Confirmed with Hochland-Lieder von Karl Stieler, Stuttgart, Meyer & Zeller's Verlag (Friedrich Vogel), 1879, page 153.

¹ Kügele: "Sommer"
² Kügele: "Wonne"
³ Fellinger: "Nimmermehr in all der"

Text Authorship:

• by Karl Stieler (1842 - 1885), "Unvergessen", appears in Hochland-Lieder, in 12. Frau Minne, no. 11 [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 Eduard Bähring , "Frühling war's in allen Zweigen", op. 18 (Zwei Gedichte für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1894 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kahnt Nachfolger [sung text not yet checked]
• by Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg (1878 - 1962), "Unvergessen", op. 11 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1899 [ voice and piano ], Offenbach, André [sung text not yet checked]
• by Paul Frommer (1868 - 1914), "Unvergessen", op. 42 no. 2 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Martin Grabert , "Unvergessen", op. 3 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 4, published 1893 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Sulzbach [sung text not yet checked]
• by Georg Kaiser , "Unvergessen", published 1884 [ medium voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 1, Berlin, Schlesinger [sung text not yet checked]
• by Maria Köstlin (1849 - 1925), "Unvergessen" [ voice and piano ], from Lieder von Maria Fellinger, no. 3, Tübingen: Fritz Schimpf [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Richard Kügele (1850 - 1926), "Unvergessen", op. 103 no. 3 [ voice and piano ], Beilage zur Neuen Musik-Zeitung, 1892, No. 24 (Stuttgart, Grüninger) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Sylvio Lazzari (1857 - 1944), "Frühling war's in allen Zweigen", published 1883 [ low voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder für 1 tiefe Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 1, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Josef Scheu (1841 - 1904), "Unvergessen!", op. 46 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1900 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Robitschek [sung text not yet checked]

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