A day in May . . | A day in May, as lovely as none ever was!

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by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Ein Maientag

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Ein Maientag, so schön wie keiner war!
Die Sonne stand am Himmel, leuchtend klar,
an einem Himmel, der in tiefem Blau 
sich wölbte über schimmernd-grüner Au.

Die Lerchen stiegen jubelnd in die Luft;
am Gartenhang bog blühend sich der Flieder
und lachte zu den jungen Veilchen nieder;
in allen Wegen lag der warme Duft.

Das war ein Tag voll Frühlingsauferstehn . .
Herz, laß auch uns dem Lenz entgegen sehn!
Und was der Winter trüb an uns verbrach:
wir gehen nun dem neuen Frühling nach!

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• C. Sinding

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Confirmed with Albert Sergel, Jenseits der Straße. Gedichte und Stimmungen, Rostock: C.J.E. Volckmann (Volckmann & Wette), 1905, page 33.

Text Authorship:

by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "Ein Maientag . .", appears in Jenseits der Strasse: Gedichte und Stimmungen, in Hinter Dorn und Heckenrosen [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 Christian Sinding (1856 - 1941), "Ein Maientag", op. 77 (Sieben Gedichte) no. 4, published 1906 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, C. F. Peters [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "A day in May . .", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2011-04-15
Line count: 12
Word count: 88

A day in May . .

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

A day in May, as lovely as none ever was!
The sun stood in the sky, shining clearly,
upon a sky that in deep blue
arched over the shimmering green meadow.

The larks rose rejoicingly into the air;
along the garden slope the lilac bowed in blossoming
and laughed down to the young violets;
in all the lanes lay the warm scent.

That was a day full of the resurrection of springtime . .
my heart, let us, too, look toward spring!
And whatever crimes winter drearily committed against us:
we now follow the new springtime!

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "Ein Maientag . .", appears in Jenseits der Strasse: Gedichte und Stimmungen, in Hinter Dorn und Heckenrosen
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This text was added to the website: 2023-11-14
Line count: 12
Word count: 99