I return home from the land of sunshine!

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by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Sonnenland

(Sung text for setting by J. Marx)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Ich komme heim aus dem Sonnenland!
Ich bin den ganzen blühenden Tag
In bunter Schönheit gegangen!
Nun fliegts mir um Stirn und Wangen,
Noch wie ein verklärter seliger Schein...
Sieh' mir nicht so in die Augen hinein,
Sonst nimmt er dich auch gefangen;
Dann kommen wir nicht von einander los,
Und schauen uns an, so sehnsuchtsgroß,
Finden aus lachendem Märchenglück
Nie mehr den Weg ins Leben zurück.

Composition:

Joseph Marx

Lieder und Gesänge

Text Authorship:

by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Warnung", appears in Befreiung. Neue Gedichte, in 4. Fremdes Leben, no. 3

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ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2008-01-05
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Word count: 75

Land of sunshine

(Sung text translation for setting by J. Marx)

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

I return home from the land of sunshine!
The whole blossoming day
I walked in colourful beauty!
Now it still flies about my brow and cheeks 
Like a transfigured, blessed radiance . . .
Do not look into my eyes like that,
Otherwise the radiance shall ensnare you as well;
Then we shall never be free of one another,
And shall look at each other with such great yearning,
From the laughing fairy-tale happiness we shall
Never again find our way back into life.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Warnung", appears in Befreiung. Neue Gedichte, in 4. Fremdes Leben, no. 3
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