Harrt ein Fischer auf der Brücke Die Geliebte säumt, Schmollend taucht er seine Blicke In den Bach - und träumt. Doch die lauscht im nahen Flieder, Und ihr Bildchen strahlt Jetzt aus klaren Wellen wieder, Treuer nie gemahlt. Und der Fischer kennt die Bänder, Kennt den süssen Schein: Und er hält sich am Geländer Sonst - zieht's ihn hinein!
Confirmed with Dichtungen vom Freyherrn Franz von Schlechta. Erster Band. Wien, 1824. Im v. Hirschfeld'schen Verlage, page 90.
Note: This is the second version of Schlechta's poem, published 1824 in his collected poems. When Schubert created his second version of Widerschein in 1828, he received a modified text from Schlechta, based on this text, but with a different first line, which Schlechta kept in his third and substantially modified version, published in 1876. For the first and the third version of Schlechta's text see below.
Note: in the repetition, Schubert reverts stanza 3, line 1 back to the original first line, "Und der Fischer kennt die Bänder".
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Xaver Freiherr von Schlechta (1796 - 1875), "Widerschein" [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
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