Don't you hear the trees rustling

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by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857)

Translation © by Grant Hicks

Hörst du nicht die Bäume rauschen

(Sung text for setting by F. Hensel)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: DUT ENG ENG FRE ITA

Hörst du nicht die Bäume rauschen
Draußen durch die stille Rund?
Lockts dich nicht, hinabzulauschen
Von dem Söller in den Grund,
Wo die vielen Bäche gehen
Wunderbar im Mondenschein
Und die stillen Burgen sehen
In den Fluß vom hohen Stein?

Kennst du noch die süssen Lieder
Aus der alten, schönen Zeit?
Sie erwachen alle wieder
Nachts in Waldeseinsamkeit,
Wenn die Bäume träumend lauschen
Und der Flieder duftet schwül
Und im Fluß die Nixen rauschen -
Komm herab, hier ist's so kühl.

Composition:

Fanny Hensel

Gartenlieder : Sechs Gesänge für Sopran, Alt, Tenor und Bass

Text Authorship:

by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), "Lockung", appears in Gedichte, in 2. Sängerleben

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Jakob Kellner) , no title, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Henri Dupraz) , "N'entends-tu pas le murmure des arbres?", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Senti tu stormire gli alberi", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Jakob Kellner , Johann Winkler , Robin Tam

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 83

Don't you hear the trees rustling

(Sung text translation for setting by F. Hensel)

See original

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Don't you hear the trees rustling
Outside through the surrounding stillness?
Aren‘t you tempted to listen
Down from the balcony to the ground,
Where the many streams flow
Wondrously in the moonlight,
And the quiet castles look
Into the river from the high rock?

Do you still remember the sweet songs
Of the beautiful olden days?
They all come awake again
At night in the solitude of the forest,
When the dreaming trees listen
And the lilac gives out a sensuous perfume
And in the river the water-sprites murmur,
"Come down, it's so cool here.”

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Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2023 by Grant Hicks, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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a text in German (Deutsch) by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), "Lockung", appears in Gedichte, in 2. Sängerleben
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Word count: 97