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Die Krähen schrein Und ziehen schwirren Flugs zur Stadt: Bald wird es schnein. - Wohl dem, der jetzt noch - Heimat hat! Nun stehst du starr, Schaust rückwärts, ach! wie lange schon! Was bist du Narr Vor Winters in die Welt entflohn? Die Welt - ein Tor Zu tausend Wüsten stumm und kalt! Wer das verlor, Was du verlorst, macht nirgends halt. Nun stehst du bleich, Zur Winter-Wanderschaft verflucht, Dem Rauche gleich, Der stets nach kältern Himmeln sucht. Flieg, Vogel, schnarr Dein Lied im Wüstenvogel-Ton! Versteck, du Narr, Dein blutend Herz in Eis und Hohn! Die Krähen schrein Und ziehen schwirren Flugs zur Stadt: Bald wird es schnein, - Weh dem, der keine Heimat hat!
Authorship
- by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "Vereinsamt", written 1884 [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 Dora Pejačević (1885 - 1923), "Vereinsamt", op. 53 (Drei Gesänge) no. 2 (1920), published 1919/20. [baritone and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Rudi Spring (b. 1962), "Vereinsamt", op. 92 no. 6 (2013) [baritone and piano], from Wünschelrute. Liederzyklus für Bariton und Klavier, no. 6. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Ernest Vietor (fl. 1905-1930), "Vereinsamt", op. 13 no. 5 (1935-6). [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Lonely", copyright ©
- ENG English [singable] (Walter A. Aue) , "Lone", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Solitaire", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:01:43
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Word count: 115
The crows caw and go with zipping wings to the city: soon it will be snowing. Happy is he who now yet has a homeland! Now you stand numbly, gazing backward, ah! for how long already? Why, you fool, did you flee into the world as Winter approached? The world - a door to a thousand wastelands silent and cold! He who has lost what you have lost, never stops anywhere. Now you stand pallid, cursed to wander in the winter, like smoke that is always seeking colder skies. Fly, bird, rasp out your song in the melody of a bird of the wastes! Hide, you fool, your bleeding heart in ice and sneers! The crows caw and go with zipping wings to the city: soon it will be snowing. Woe is he who has no homeland!
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "Vereinsamt", written 1884
Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:01:43
Line count: 24
Word count: 137