O Sprengen des Gartens, das Grün zu ermutigen! Wässern der durstgen Bäume! Gib mehr als genug. Und Vergiß nicht das Strauchwerk, auch Das beerenlose nicht, das ermattete Geizige! Und übersieh mir nicht Zwischen den Blumen das Unkraut, das auch Durst hat. Noch gieße nur Den frischen Rasen oder den versengten nur: Auch den nackten Boden erfrische du.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Die Gedichte von Bertolt Brecht in einem Band, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1981 (Neunte Auflage 1997), page 861
Text Authorship:
- by Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), "Vom Sprengen des Gartens" [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 Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962), "Vom Sprengen des Gartens", 1943, from Hollywooder Liederbuch, no. 44 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "On the watering of the garden", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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