Wo die Korallen blüh'n | Aus Tiefen tönt es leis und sacht

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by Richard Garnett (1835 - 1906)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Where corals lie

Language: English

Our translations: CAT CAT GER ITA

The deeps have music soft and low
  When winds awake the airy [spry]¹,
It [lures me,]² lures me on to go
  And see the land where corals lie.

By mount and mead, by lawn and rill,
  When night is deep, [when noon]³ is high,
That music seeks and finds me still,
  And tells me where the corals lie.

Yes, press my eyelids close, 'tis well,
  But far the rapid fancies fly
The rolling worlds of wave and shell,
  And all the lands where corals lie.

Thy lips are like a [sunset's]⁴ glow,
  Thy smile is like a morning sky,
Yet leave me, leave me, let me go
  And see the land where corals lie.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• E. Elgar

View original text (without footnotes)
¹ Read: "spray"
² omitted by Read; further changes may exist not noted.
³ Elgar: "and moon"
⁴ Elgar: "sunset"

Text Authorship:

by Richard Garnett (1835 - 1906), "Where corals lie" [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 Edward Elgar, Sir (1857 - 1934), "Where corals lie", op. 37 no. 4, published 1899, first performed 1899 [ alto and piano ], from Sea Pictures, no. 4, London: Boosey & Hawkes [sung text checked 1 time]
by Gardner Read (1913 - 2005), "Where corals lie", published 1938 [ SSATBB chorus and piano or orchestra ], Chicago : H. T. FitzSimons [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "On es troben els coralls", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
CAT Catalan (Català) (Manuel Capdevila i Font) , "On jeuen els coralls", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Wo die Korallen blüh'n", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Dove giacciono i coralli", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 119

Wo die Korallen blüh'n

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Aus Tiefen tönt es leis und sacht,
im Wind die weiße Gischt erwacht,
es lockt und lockt mich hinzuziehn
ins Land, wo die Korallen blüh’n.

Auf Berg und Au, an Wies’ und Bach,
bei Mondes Schein in tiefer Nacht 
tönt es mir zu und kündet mir
vom Land, wo die Korallen blüh’n.

Ja, drück mir fest die Augen zu,
doch fliegen meine Fantasien
ins Reich der Wogen und dorthin,
wo Muscheln sind, Korallen blüh’n.

Wohl küsst du wie die Abendsonn’
und lächelst wie der neue Tag,
doch geh’ von mir, geh, lass mich ziehn
ins Land, wo die Korallen blüh’n.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in English by Richard Garnett (1835 - 1906), "Where corals lie"
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This text was added to the website: 2015-08-07
Line count: 16
Word count: 100