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Nacht fließt in Tag und Tag in Nacht, Der Bach zum Strom, der Strom zum Meer - In Tod zerrinnt des Lebens Pracht, Und Tod zeugt Leben licht und hehr. Und jeder Geist, der brünstig strebt, Dringt wie ein Quell in alle Welt, -- Was du erlebst, hab' ich erlebt, Was mich erhellt, hat dich erhellt. All' sind wir eines Baums Getrieb, Ob [Zweig, ob Ast]1, ob Mark, ob Blatt - Gleich hat Natur uns Alle lieb, Sie unser Aller Ruhestatt.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Schoenberg: "Ast, ob Zweig"
Authorship:
- by Heinrich Hart (1855 - 1906), "Alleins", written 1881 [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 James Rothstein (b. 1871), "Alleins", op. 36 (Zwei ernste Gesänge für 1 tiefe Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1898 [ low voice and piano ], Berlin, Gottfurcht [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Natur", op. 8 no. 1 (1903-5) [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Orchesterlieder, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Karl Weigl (1881 - 1949), "Natur", op. 29 (1926), published 1933 [ SSAATTBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
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- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , copyright © 2014
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 80
Night flows into day and day into night, The brook into the river, the river into the ocean; The splendour of life melts away into death, And death begets life, light and sublime. And any soul that strives with ardor Breaks out into all the world like a wellspring -- What you underwent, I have undergone, What enlightened me, enlightened you. We are all part of one tree, Whether twig or branch or pith or leaf -- Nature loves us all the same, [for] she is the resting place of us all.
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Translation of titles:
"Natur" = "Nature"
"Alleins" = "The unity of all things" (with thanks to Bertram Kottmann for suggesting that "Alleins" could mean "Alles ist eins" (more literally, "All is a unity")
Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2014 by Emily Ezust
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Hart (1855 - 1906), "Alleins", written 1881
This text was added to the website: 2014-03-06
Line count: 12
Word count: 90