We must, my most beloved, walk

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by Robert Franz Arnold (1872 - 1938)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Waldeinsamkeit

(Sung text for setting by F. Schreker)

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Language: German (Deutsch) after the Danish (Dansk)

Our translations: ENG

Wir müssen, Geliebteste, leise
Hinschreiten, ich und du.
Es schläft eine Sangesweise
In Waldes nächtlicher Ruh.

Verstummt sind Winde und Wellen
Und aller Singvögelein Mund,
Schweigend rinnen die Quellen
Blank über moosigen Grund.

Des Mondlichts stiller Reigen
Durchspielt das Buchengeheg,
Es schlummert in süssem Schweigen
Ein silberner Streif am Weg.

Die Wolken selber droben
Schweben auf Flügeln breit
Und schauen vom Glanz umschwoben
In die Waldeseinsamkeit.

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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-4 of the original text.

Composition:

Franz (August Julius) Schreker

Zwei Liebeslieder

Jugendlieder

Text Authorship:

by Robert Franz Arnold (1872 - 1938), "Landschaft"

Based on:

a text in Danish (Dansk) by Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847 - 1885) [text unavailable]
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ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Peter Donderwinkel , Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2003-12-29
Line count: 20
Word count: 85

Sylvan Solitude

(Sung text translation for setting by F. Schreker)

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

We must, my most beloved, walk
Quietly hither, I and you.
A melody of song is sleeping
In the nocturnal peace of the forest.

The winds and the waves have fallen mute
And all the beaks of the songbirds,
Silently the water-springs flow
Shiningly over the mossy hollow.

The quiet roundelay of moonlight
Plays through the beechwood close,
In sweet silence there slumbers
A silver bar of light along the path.

The clouds themselves above
Are floating on broad pinions
And, wafted about by radiance,
They gaze into the forest solitude.

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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-4 of the original text.

Translations of title(s):
"Landschaft" = "Landscape"
"Waldeinsamkeit" = "Sylvan Solitude"

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Robert Franz Arnold (1872 - 1938), "Landschaft"
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Based on:

a text in Danish (Dansk) by Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847 - 1885) [text unavailable]
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This text was added to the website: 2021-03-18
Line count: 20
Word count: 118