Es singt ein Schnitter auf der Rast, Im Dufte schwelgt der reife Klee -- O du, daß du das alte Weh Mir wieder wachgesungen hast! Volkslieder, Kinderlieder gehn Leistönig auf im Abendwind, Und wieder schmerzen alle Wehn, Die doch vernarbt, vergessen sind. Spätabendwolken segeln zier, Die Erde atmet warm und weit . . . Was willst du heute noch von mir, Verlorene Jugendzeit?
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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 131.
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- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Sommerabend", subtitle: "(Sommer 1903)", written 1903, appears in Neue deutsche Lyriker III , in Von Wanderungen, first published 1919 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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