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Der Tag ging regenschwer und sturmbewegt, Ich war an manch [vergessenem]1 Grab gewesen, Verwittert Stein und Kreuz, die Kränze alt, Die Namen überwachsen, kaum zu lesen. Der Tag ging sturmbewegt und regenschwer, Auf allen Gräbern fror das Wort: Gewesen. Wie sturmestot die Särge schlummerten, Auf allen Gräbern taute still: Genesen.
Confirmed with Detlev von Liliencron, Adjutantenritte, Zweite Auflage, Berlin, Schuster & Loeffler, 1896, page 31.
1 Brahms: "vergeßnem"Authorship
- by Detlev von Liliencron (1844 - 1909), "Auf dem Kirchhofe", appears in Adjudantenritte [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 Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Auf dem Kirchhofe", op. 105 (Fünf Lieder) no. 4 (1887/8), published 1888 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Simrock [sung text checked 1 time]
- by E. Gottschalk , "Auf dem Kirchhofe" [sung text not yet checked]
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- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Op het kerkhof", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "In the churchyard", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Au cimetière", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Al cimitero", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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The day was heavy with rain and disturbed by storms; I was walking among many forgotten graves, with weathered stones and crosses, the wreaths old, the names washed away, hardly to be read. The day was disturbed by storms and heavy with rain; on every grave froze the words "we were." The coffins slumbered calmly like the eye of a storm, and on every grave melted quietly the words: "we were healed."
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Detlev von Liliencron (1844 - 1909), "Auf dem Kirchhofe", appears in Adjudantenritte
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Word count: 72