Wer meine Freunde sind? Zugvögel, überm Ozean verirrt, Schiffbrüchige Schiffer, Herden ohne Hirt, Die Nacht, der Traum, der heimatlose Wind. . . Ich weiß: an irgend einem fernen Tag Wird alles Gute, das in mir gefangen An stillen Ketten müd und tatlos lag, Zu Licht und Tat und Herrlichkeit gelangen. Ich weiß: dann wird tot und vergangen sein Der welke Wintertraum, an dem ich kranke, Dann wird mein Schlaf voll süßen Trostes sein Und voll verklärten Wissens mein Gedanke. Ich weiß: dann wird Er, den ich oft geahnt, Der unbekannte Gott mir still begegnen Und auf die Stirn mir legen seine Hand Und gütig mich mit seinem Frieden segnen.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 498.
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Vollendung", written 1901 [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 Rudolf Brömel (b. 1877), "Vollendung", published 1945-8 [ voice and piano ], from Hermann Hesse Lieder, no. 25 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Completion", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Accomplissement", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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