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Nada te turbe. Nada te espante. Todo se pasa. Dios no se muda. La paciencia Todo lo alcanza. Quien a Dios tiene Nada le falta. Sólo Dios basta.
Authorship
- possibly by St. Teresa of Ávila (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada) (1515 - 1582), from a poem found in a breviary owned by her. [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by Lynn Steele (1951 - 2002), "Breviario" [soprano and English handbells or harp] [ sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882) , from The Poets and Poetry of Europe, first published 1871 GER ; composed by David Leo Diamond, Jenö Takacs, Joelle Wallach.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Lynn Steele
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 9
Word count: 28
Durch nichts lass dich stören, nichts dich erschrecken, alles vergeht. Gott ewig besteht. Geduldiges Ringen lässt alles gelingen. Wenn Gott zu dir hält, dir nichts weiter fehlt. Allein Er genügt.
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- Translation from Spanish (Español) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2013 by Bertram Kottmann, (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 Spanish (Español) possibly by St. Teresa of Ávila (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada) (1515 - 1582)
This text was added to the website: 2013-11-04
Line count: 9
Word count: 30