Grabschrift | Unter dem Sternenhimmel weit

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by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

Translation © by Walter A. Aue

Requiem

(Sung text for setting by C. Ives)

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Language: English

Our translations: GER ITA

Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie;
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

 ... 

This be the verse you grave for me:
"Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill."

Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1,3 of the original text.

Note: Steele changes "longed" to "long'd" in the last stanza.

Composition:

Charles Edward Ives

Text Authorship:

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Requiem", appears in Underwoods, first published 1887

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GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Walter A. Aue) , "Grabschrift", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Requiem", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Grabschrift

(Sung text translation for setting by C. Ives)

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Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Unter dem Sternenhimmel weit
Grabt mein Grab für die Ewigkeit.
Hab' gern gelebt, war zum Sterben bereit
Und legt' mich zum Schlaf unverzagt.

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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1,3 of the original text.

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Singable translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2010 by Walter A. Aue, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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a text in English by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Requiem", appears in Underwoods, first published 1887
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