Ob ich manchmal Dein gedenke
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Ob ich manchmal Dein gedenke?
Wüßtest Du, wie sehr ich's thu',
Dir auch noch die Schatten lenke
Träumender Gedanken zu!
Tag und Nacht, und alle Stunden,--
O dies Alles sagt es nicht;
Du, seitdem wir uns gefunden,
Bist's allein, was aus mir spricht.
Alles Andre seh' ich schweben
Um mich her wie Traum und Schein.
Dein gedenken ist mein Leben,
Dich zu lieben ist mein Sein.
Note: in Jenner's song, in stanza 3, line 2, word 4 ("wie") becomes "in" in the repetition. Note: in Lang's first edition (1848), in stanza 1, line 3, word 6 ("lenke") was "lenken" and stanza 3, line 1, word 5 was "schwanken". These were corrected in the 2008 edition.
Composition:
Set to music by Josephine Lang (1815 - 1880), "Ob ich manchmal Dein gedenke", op. 27 no. 3 (1841), published 1872 [ voice and piano ], Stuttgart, Ebner
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Word count: 71
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
Do I sometimes think of you?
If you only knew how much!
Draw unto yourself even the shadows
Of my dreaming thoughts!
Day and night, and at all hours,
Oh all those words do not express it;
You alone, since we found each other,
Are the substance of my utterances.
I see everything else tottering
About me like dreams and illusions!
To think of you is my very life!
To love you is my existence.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Christian Reinhold (1813 - 1856), no title, subtitle: "9. März", written 1841
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