Clear and wafting, there is the rustling of

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by Johann Gaudenz Freiherr von Salis-Seewis (1762 - 1834)

Translation © by Malcolm Wren

Die Einsiedelei

(Sung text for setting by F. Schubert)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE

Amat nemus et fugit urbes.
                          Horat. 

Es rieselt, klar und wehend,
Ein Quell im Eichenwald; 
Da wähl' ich, einsam gehend,
Mir meinen Aufenthalt.
Mir dienet zur Capelle
Ein Gröttchen, duftigfrisch;
Zu meiner Klausnerzelle
Verschlungenes Gebüsch.

 ... 

Nichts unterbricht das Schweigen
Der Wildniß weit und breit,
Als wenn auf dürren Zweigen
Ein Grünspecht hackt und schreyt,
Ein Rab' auf hoher Spitze
Bemooster Tannen krächzt,
Und in der Felsenritze
Ein Ringeltäubchen ächzt.

Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1,2,5 of the original text.

First published in Musen-Almanach für 1789. Herausgegeben von J. H. Voß. Hamburg, bey Carl Ernst Bohn, pages 179-181.

Composition:

Franz Peter Schubert

Text Authorship:

by Johann Gaudenz Freiherr von Salis-Seewis (1762 - 1834), "Die Einsiedeley", written 1787, first published 1789

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CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "De kluizenaarswoning", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Malcolm Wren) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2006-08-28
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Word count: 207

The hermitage

(Sung text translation for setting by F. Schubert)

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

He loves the woods and flees the towns.
                                                 Horace 

Clear and wafting, there is the rustling of
A spring in the oak wood;
Going there alone, that is the place I chose
For my residence.
Serving me as a chapel
There is a little grotto, scented and fresh;
For my hermit's cell
There are entwined bushes.

 ... 

Nothing interrupts the silence
Of the broad wilderness going off into the distance,
Except when, on dried up branches
A green woodpecker pecks and cries out,
Or if there is a raven on the high point
Of a moss-covered fir tree and it caws,
Or in one of the cracks of the cliff-face
There is a dear little wood pigeon complaining.

Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1,2,5 of the original text.

The epigraph is from Horace, Book 2 Epistle 2, 77: Scriptorum chorus omnis amat nemus et fugit urbes (The whole chorus of writers loves the woods and escapes from towns).

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