by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Translation © by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943)
Wandelt sich rasch auch die Welt
Language: German (Deutsch)
Our translations: FRE
Wandelt sich rasch auch die Welt wie Wolkengestalten, alles Vollendete fällt heim zum Uralten. Über dem Wandel und Gang, weiter und freier, währt noch dein Vor-Gesang, Gott mit der Leier. Nicht sind die Leiden erkannt, nicht ist die Liebe gelernt, und was im Tod uns entfernt, ist nicht entschleiert. Einzig das Lied überm Land heiligt und feiert.
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Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 19
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- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Though the world keeps changing its form [ ... ]
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- Set to music by Richard Danielpour (b. 1956), "Prologue", subtitle: "Sonnet XIX", 1994, published 1995 [ baritone and chamber orchestra ], from Sonnets to Orpheus (Book I), no. 1, Associated Music Publishers
Text Authorship:
- by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943), copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 19
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