Gift | To offer up everything

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by Barbara Elisabeth Glück (1814 - 1894), as Betty Paoli

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Gabe

(Sung text for setting by L. Mayer)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Alles hinzugeben 
  Ist der Liebe Brauch;
Nimm denn hin mein Leben, 
  Und mein Sterben auch!

Aller meiner Lieder
  Sanften Schmeichellaut,
Die ein Eden wieder 
  Sich aus Schutt erbaut;

Alle Lichtgedanken, 
  Die an Glück und Leid
Kühn sich aufwärts ranken 
  In die Ewigkeit;

All mein stilles Sehnen, 
  Innig dir vertraut,
Das in sel'gen Thränen 
  Auf dich niederthaut!

Nimm, daß dir nichts fehle, 
  Wenn die Stunde ruft,
Meine ganze Seele 
  Hin als Opferduft!

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Lise Maria Mayer

Text Authorship:

by Barbara Elisabeth Glück (1814 - 1894), as Betty Paoli, "Gabe"

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Gift

(Sung text translation for setting by L. Mayer)

See original

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

To offer up everything 
is the way of love;
Take then my life 
and my death too!

Take all the soft flattering sounds 
of my songs,
which have created a paradise 
out of rubble.

Take all bright thoughts 
that on joy and sorrow
boldly twine themselves 
aloft toward eternity.

Take all my quiet longing, 
fervently entrusted to you,
which in joyful tears 
falls like dew upon you!

Take, so that you lack nothing 
when the hour calls,
take my whole soul 
as a scent of sacrifice!

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