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Immer wieder tröstlich Und immer neu in ewiger Schöpfung Glanz Lacht mir die Welt ins Auge, Lebt und regt sich in tausend atmenden Formen, Flattert Falter im sonnigen Wind, Segelt Schwalbe in seliger Bläue, Strömt Meerflut am felsigen Strand. Immer wieder ist Stern und Baum, Ist mir Wolke und Vogel nahe verwandt, Grüßt mich als Bruder der Fels, Ruft mir freundschaftlich das unendliche Meer. Unverstanden führt mich mein Weg Einer blau verlorenen Ferne zu, Nirgend ist Sinn, nirgend ist sicheres Ziel -- Dennoch redet mir jeder Waldbach, Jede summende Fliege von tiefem Gesetz, Heiliger Ordnung, Deren Himmelsgewölb' auch mich überspannt, Deren heimliches Tönen Wie im Gang der Gestirne So auch in meines Herzens Taktschlag klingt.
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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, pages 218-219.
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Andante", written 1912, appears in Feierliche Abendmusik, no. 2 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Hans Peter Nowak (b. 1932), "Andante", 1983 [ voice and piano ], from Feierliche Abendmusik, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Josef Röösli , "Andante", published 1977 [ reciter and piano ], from Feierliche Abendmusik, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Heinz Sälter , "Andante", op. 13 no. 2 (1949) [ alto, four-part mixed chorus, piano, and orchestra ], from Feierliche Abendmusik nach Worten von Hermann Hesse, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Karl Franz Schwarz , "Andante", 1948 [ voice and piano (or orchestra?) ], from Musik des Einsamen, no. 11 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Andante", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Andante", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Andante", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2009-05-08
Line count: 21
Word count: 114
Ever again comfortingly And ever new in the eternal radiance of creation The world smiles into my eyes, It lives and moves in a thousand breathing forms, The butterfly flutters in the sunny wind, The swallow sails in the blissful blue, The ocean flood streams at the rocky shore. Ever again star and tree, Cloud and bird are my near relatives, The rocky cliff greets me as a brother, The boundless ocean calls to me as a friend. Uncomprehended my path leads me Toward some lost, blue distance, Nowhere is meaning, nowhere a certain goal – Nevertheless every forest stream, every buzzing fly Speaks to me of a deep law, Of holy order, Whose heavenly vault is also stretched out above me, Whose secret sounds, As they do in the course of the stars, Also ring in the beats of my heart.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Andante", written 1912, appears in Feierliche Abendmusik, no. 2
This text was added to the website: 2016-11-17
Line count: 21
Word count: 142