The snow in the sun | How beautifully the snow sparkles, when the beams of the sun

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by Johannes Scheffler (1624 - 1677), as Angelus Silesius

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Der Schnee in der Sonne

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Wie schöne glänzt der Schnee, [wann jhn]¹ die Sonnenstrahlen
Mit [Himmlischen]² Licht bestreichen und bemalen!
So glänzt auch deine Seel, so ist sie weiß wie Schnee:
[Wann]³ sie beschienen wird vom Aufgang [auß]⁴ der Höh.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• A. Mendelssohn

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Confirmed with Angelus Silesius, Cherubinischer Wandersmann (Geistreiche Sinn- und Schlussreime), Abdruck der ersten Ausgabe von 1657. Mit Hinzufügung des sechsten Buches nach der zweiten Ausgabe von 1675, herausgegeben von Georg Ellinger, Halle a.S.: Max Niemayer, 1895, page 90

¹ Mendelssohn: "wenn ihn"
² Mendelssohn: "himmlischem"
³ Mendelssohn: "Wenn"
⁴ Mendelssohn: "aus"

Text Authorship:

by Johannes Scheffler (1624 - 1677), as Angelus Silesius, "Der Schnee in der Sonne", appears in Cherubinischen Wandersmann, in 4. Vierdtes Buch Geistriecher Sinn- und Schluß-Reime, no. 16 [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 Arnold Mendelssohn (1855 - 1933), "Der Schnee in der Sonne", published 1900 [SATB chorus], from Sechs vierstimmige Chorsätze für S., A., T. und B., no. 1, Leipzig, Rieter-Biedermann [ sung text verified 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , title 1: "The snow in the sun", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2014-02-17
Line count: 4
Word count: 39

The snow in the sun

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

How beautifully the snow sparkles, when the beams of the sun
Paint and colour it with heavenly light!
Thus also shines your soul, thus it is white as snow:
When the rising from on high shines upon it.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Johannes Scheffler (1624 - 1677), as Angelus Silesius, "Der Schnee in der Sonne", appears in Cherubinischen Wandersmann, in 4. Vierdtes Buch Geistriecher Sinn- und Schluß-Reime, no. 16
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This text was added to the website: 2017-05-13
Line count: 4
Word count: 38