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by Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner (1768 - 1823)

Trarah, trarah! Wir kehren daheim
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG FRE
Trarah, trarah! Wir kehren daheim, -
Wir bringen die Beute der Jagd! -
Es sinket die Nacht,
Drum halten wir Wacht;
Das Licht hat über das Dunkel Macht!
Trarah, trarah! Auf, auf!
Das Feuer angefacht!

Trarah, trarah! Wir zechen im Kreis;
Wir spotten des Dunkels, der Nacht!
Des Menschen Macht,
In freudiger Pracht,
Die Qual verhöhnet, des Todes lacht! -
Trarah, trarah! Auf, auf!
Die Glut ist angefacht!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   F. Schubert 

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Confirmed with Wanda, Königin der Sarmaten. Eine romantische Tragödie mit Gesang in fünf Akten. Von Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner. Tübingen, 1810. In der J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, pages 22&24; and with Theater von Friedr. Ludw. Zachar. Werner. Vierter Band. Wörtlich nach der Original-Ausgabe. Wien, 1813. Im Verlage bey Joh. Bapt. Wallishausser, pages 242&244.

The poem appears in Werner's drama Wanda, Königin der Sarmaten at the end of act 1 as Chor der Ritter und Reisigen (chorus of the knights and horsemen).

See also the last two stanzas of this text, once used as the sung text for a Schubert song titled "Die Nacht".


Text Authorship:

  • by Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner (1768 - 1823), no title, first published 1810 [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 Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Jagdlied", D 521 (1817), published 1895 [ voice or chorus in unison with piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Cançó de cacera", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Richard Morris , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 67

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