Hohe, feierliche Nacht
Language: German (Deutsch)
Hohe, feierliche Nacht,
Unbegreifliches Gepränge,
Aug, das über unsrer Enge
Fragend in der Fremde wacht,
Hohe, feierliche Nacht!
Goldne Schrift am Firmament,
Ach, wer deutet uns im Blauen,
Das wir nur durch Tränen schauen,
Was so fern, so selig brennt,
Goldne Schrift am Firmament?
Dunkler Saal voll Sphärenklang,
Taub vom Lärm des eignen Lebens,
Hört dies dumpfe Ohr vergebens
Deiner Lichter Lobgesang,
Dunkler Saal voll Sphärenklang!
Holde Nacht, von Sternen klar,
Spende Trost, wem Trost mag werden,
Überm Elend aller Erden
Wunder, ewig wunderbar,
Holde Nacht, von Sternen klar!
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Confirmed with Rudolf Alexander Schröder, Gesammelte Werke in Fünf Bänden, Erster Band, Die Gedichte, Berlin und Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1952, pages 712-713.
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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
Lofty, solemn night,
Incomprehensible splendour,
Eye that over our narrowness
Questioningly keeps watch in foreign parts,
Lofty, solemn night!
Golden script upon the firmament,
Ah, who would interpret that which, in the blue,
We see only through tears,
That which burns so distantly, so blessedly,
Golden script upon the firmament?
Dark vault full of the music of the spheres,
Deaf from the noise of its own life,
This dull ear hears in vain
Your lights' paean of praise,
Dark vault full of the music of the spheres!
Lovely night of clear stars,
Dispense comfort to those who can receive it,
Over the misery of all the earth
Wonder, eternally wondrous,
Lovely night of clear stars!
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Translations of title(s):
"In der Nacht gesungen" = "Sung at night"
"In die Nacht gesungen" = "Sung out into the night"
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