Evening song | It has become so quiet

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by (Johann) Gottfried Kinkel (1815 - 1882)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Abendlied

(Sung text for setting by E. Ohlsen)

See original

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE

Es ist so still geworden,
Verrauscht des Abends Wehn,
Nun hört man aller Orten
Der Engel Füße gehn,
Rings in die Thäler senket
Sich Finsterniß mit Macht --
Wirf ab, Herz, was dich kränket
Und was dir bange macht!

Es ruht die Welt in Schweigen, 
Ihr Tosen ist vorbei,
Stumm ihrer Freude Reigen
Und stumm ihr Schmerzenschrei.
Hat Rosen sie geschenket,
Hat Dornen sie gebracht --
Wirf ab, Herz, was dich kränket
Und was dir bange macht! 

Und hast du heut gefehlet, 
O schaue nicht zurück;
Empfinde dich beseelet 
Von freier Gnade Glück.
Auch des Verirrten denket 
Der Hirt auf hoher Wacht --
Wirf ab, Herz, was dich kranket 
Und was dir bange macht! 

Nun stehn im Himmelskreise
Die Stern' in Majestät;
In gleichem festem Gleise
Der goldne Wagen geht.
Und gleich den Stürmen lenket
Er deinen Weg durch Nacht --
Wirf ab, Herz, was dich kränket,
Und was dir bange macht!

Confirmed wtih Gedichte von Gottfried Kinkel, Erster Band, Siebente Auflage, Stuttgart, Verlag der J. F. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1872, pages 191-192.

Composition:

Emil Ohlsen

Text Authorship:

by (Johann) Gottfried Kinkel (1815 - 1882), "Ein geistlich Abendlied", appears in Gedichte, in Auf der Wanderschaft, no. 7

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Avondlied", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Evening song", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Chant du soir", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Line count: 32
Word count: 154

Evening song

(Sung text translation for setting by E. Ohlsen)

See original

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

It has become so quiet.
The evening breeze has rustled itself out.
Now one hears everywhere
The footsteps of the angels.
All around darkness sinks
Powerfully into the valleys;
Cast off, heart, what grieves you
And what makes you anxious!
 
The world rests in silence,
Its turbulence is past,
Its roundelay of joy is mute,
And mute its cry of pain;
Whether it provided roses,
Whether it brought thorns,
Cast off, heart, what grieves you
And what makes you anxious!
 
And if today you erred,
Oh do not look back;
Feel yourself animated
By the good fortune of free grace.
The shepherd upon his watch on high
Thinks also of the lost one--
Cast off, heart, what grieves you
And what makes you anxious!
 
Now all about the heavens
The stars stand in majesty.
Along the old, firm pathway
The golden carriage the moon is travelling.
And like the stars, it directs
Your way through the night.
Cast off, heart, what grieves you
And what makes you anxious!

¹ Blumner: "now become" (Musikalien-catalog von Heinrichshofen's Verlag in Magdeburg); further changes may exist not shown above. ² Schumann: "depths"

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a text in German (Deutsch) by (Johann) Gottfried Kinkel (1815 - 1882), "Ein geistlich Abendlied", appears in Gedichte, in Auf der Wanderschaft, no. 7
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