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by Hans Heinrich Ehrler (1872 - 1951)

Translation © by John Glenn Paton

Des Mönches Abschied von den Geleite Gebenden

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Gehet nun, gehet nun fort!
Lasset mich schließen die Tür!
Sehet, ich zeichne ein Kreuz
Euch in die Lüfte nach.

Oben mein Fenster noch schaut
Eueren Wegen drein.
Freunde, wo ihr euch trennt,
Letztes Mal blicket zurück!

Abendlich grüßenden Blick
Nehmet von meinem Berg!
Auge füll Auge mit Licht,
Daß es sich immer erkennt.

Scheidende Rede im Ohr
Bleibe Gedenkens Musik.
Hören wir wieder den Ton,
Ist er geworden zum Lied.

Confirmed with Hans Heinrich Ehrler, Gesicht und Antlitz: Neue Gedichte, Gotha: Leopold Klotz Verlag, 1928, page 146.

Text Authorship:

by Hans Heinrich Ehrler (1872 - 1951), "Des Mönches Abschied von den Geleite Gebenden", appears in Gesicht und Antlitz: Neue Gedichte [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 Hermann Reutter (1900 - 1985), "Des Mönches Abschied von den Geleite Gebenden", op. 65 no. 12, published 1948, from Ehrler-Zyklus II, no. 12 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (John Glenn Paton) , "The monk's farewell from those who accompany him", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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The monk's farewell from those who accompany him

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Go now, go on your way.
Let me close the door.
Look, I am making a sign of the cross
on the breeze after you.

My window overhead still looks
down onto your paths.
Friends, where you part from one another,
look back for the last time.

In the evening, take my greeting gaze
from my mountain.
May my eye fill yours with light,
so that it always recognizes itself.

May my parting speech remain
in your ear like memory’s music.
When we hear the tone again,
it has become a song.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Hans Heinrich Ehrler (1872 - 1951), "Des Mönches Abschied von den Geleite Gebenden", appears in Gesicht und Antlitz: Neue Gedichte
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This text was added to the website: 2017-04-19
Line count: 16
Word count: 92