Be great, be proud, a lofty world ruler

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by Christoph August Tiedge (1752 - 1841)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Sei groß, sei stolz, ein hoher...

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Sei groß, sei stolz, ein hoher Weltgebieter,
Und hell umleuchte dich des Glückes Sonnenlicht,
Der Erdengüter Glanz: du hast nur Erdengüter;
Glückseligkeit, die hast du nicht.

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Text Authorship:

by Christoph August Tiedge (1752 - 1841), no title, appears in Urania, in Dritter Gesang (Leben. Glückseligkeit. Wahrheit) [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 Friedrich Heinrich Himmel (1765 - 1814), "Sei groß, sei stolz, ein hoher Weltgebieter", 1814, published 1880, from Gesänge aus Tiedge's Urania, no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Be great, be proud, a lofty world ruler

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Be great, be proud, a lofty world ruler,
And may the sunshine of good fortune shine brightly about you,
The splendour of earthly goods:  you have only earthly goods,
Happiness, that you do not have.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Christoph August Tiedge (1752 - 1841), no title, appears in Urania, in Dritter Gesang (Leben. Glückseligkeit. Wahrheit)
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This text was added to the website: 2014-12-12
Line count: 4
Word count: 35