Now that your heart has confessed to me

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by Georg Scherer (1824 - 1909)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Nun mir dein Herz gestanden

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Nun mir dein Herz gestanden
Was lang dein Mund verhehlt,
Hat es mit heil'gen Banden
Dem meinen sich vermählt.

Wie dich in sel'gem Schweigen
Mein Arm umschlungen hält,
So bleibst du nun mein eigen
Vor Gott und aller Welt.

Schlag nicht die Augen nieder,
O sei nicht scheu und bang!
Ich laß dich nimmer wieder
Mein ganzes Leben lang.

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Georg Scherer, vierte, vermehrte Auflage, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Berlin, Wien: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1894, page 60

Text Authorship:

by Georg Scherer (1824 - 1909), "Mein!", appears in Gedichte von Georg Scherer, in 1. Erstes Buch, in Lieder [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 Eduard Seuffert (1850 - 1908), "Dich lass ich nimmer wieder", op. 26 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1895 [ voice and piano ], Wien, Gutmann [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2011-09-21
Line count: 12
Word count: 59

Now that your heart has confessed to me

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Now that your heart has confessed to me
That which your lips long concealed,
With holy bonds [your heart]
Has wedded itself to mine.
 
Just as how in blissful silence
My arms hold you embraced,
Thus you shall remain my own
Before God and all the world.
 
Do not cast down your eyes,
Oh do not be shy and anxious!
I shall never leave you again
For the rest of my life.

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Translated titles:
"Mein!" = "Mine!"
"Dich lass ich nimmer wieder" = "I shall never leave you again"

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Scherer (1824 - 1909), "Mein!", appears in Gedichte von Georg Scherer, in 1. Erstes Buch, in Lieder
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This text was added to the website: 2015-10-13
Line count: 12
Word count: 72