Wald läßt die Blätter sinken, Talnebel hängen schwer, Es hat der Strom kein Blinken, Der Wald kein Rauschen mehr. Da kommt der Sturm gepfiffen Und schüttelt lichtes Haar Und fegt mit festen Griffen Das Land vom Nebel klar. Er schont nicht Laub nicht Äste, Nichts Hübsches ist ihm wert, Der Vogel bangt im Neste, Der Bauer friert am Herd. Räum auf und brich in Scherben, Was nimmer halten mag, Und reiß aus Nacht und Sterben Empor den lichten Tag!
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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 224.
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- Set to music by Walter Steffens (b. 1934), "November 1914 ", c1955 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ], from Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 3
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- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "November 1914", written 1914
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