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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Die Nebel zerreißen
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Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG FIN FRE ITA
Die Nebel zerreißen,
Der Himmel ist helle
Und Aeolus löset
Das ängstliche Band. 
Es säuseln die Winde,
Es rührt sich der Schiffer. 
Geschwinde! Geschwinde! 
Es theilt sich die Welle,
Es naht sich die Ferne,
Schon seh' ich das Land!

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Confirmed with Goethe's Werke, Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand, Erster Band, Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J.G.Cottaschen Buchhandlung, 1827, page 73; with Göthe's neue Schriften. Siebenter Band. Berlin. Bei Johann Friedrich Unger. 1800, pages 18-19; and with Musen-Almanach für das Jahr 1796. Herausgegeben von Schiller. Neustrelitz, bei dem Hofbuchhändler Michaelis, page 83.

Note: Goethe's "Meeres Stille" and "Glückliche Fahrt" constitute a pair of poems belonging together.


Text Authorship:

  • by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "Glückliche Fahrt", written 1795, first published 1795 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

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