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by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
Translation by L. G. Silbergleit

Prayer for Mary
Language: English 
Powers celestial, whose protection
  Ever guards the virtuos fair,
While in distant climes I wander,
  Let my Mary be your care:
Let her form sae fair and faultless,
  Fair and fautless as your own:
Let my Mary’s kindred spirit
  Draw your choicest influence down.
 
Make the gales you waft around her,
  Soft and peaceful as her breast;
Breathing in the breeze that fans her,
  Soothe her bosom into rest:
Guardian angels, O protect her,
  When in distant lands I roam;
To realms unknown while fate exiles me,
  Make her bosom still my home.

Confirmed with The Collected Poems of Robert Burns, Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1994, p. 458.


Text Authorship:

  • by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "Prayer for Mary"

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Researcher for this page: Rudi Spring

This text was added to the website: 2014-09-26
Line count: 16
Word count: 93

Marie
 (Sung text for setting by C. Goldmark)
 See original
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the English 
Himmlesmächte, die ihr schirmet
Holde Mädchen, schön und gut,
Schützet gnädig mir Marie,
Stärkt ihr theures, süßes Blut.

Während in die Fern' ich fahre,
Bleib' es heil gleich euch und rein.
Eure schönsten Harmonieen 
Haucht in ihre Seele ein.

Lasset eure linden Lüfte
Frieden wehn in ihr Gemüth,
Daß durch jeden süßen Schlummer 
Freundlich ihr ein Traumbild geht.

Himmelsmächte, schirmt die Theure,
Wann ich fahre abendwärts.
Wann ich irre in die Ferne,
Bleibe Heimath mir ihr Herz.

Composition:

    Set to music by Carl Goldmark (1830 - 1915), "Marie", op. 21 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2 (187-?), published 1875 [ low voice and piano ], Wien, Gotthard

Text Authorship:

  • by L. G. Silbergleit

Based on:

  • a text in English by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "Prayer for Mary"
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-07-27
Line count: 16
Word count: 83

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