The eyes of a child | If there is no joy to refresh you

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by Georg Scherer (1824 - 1909)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Kindesauge

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Will keine Freude dich erquicken,
Verzehrt das Herz dir Gram und Pein,
Dann schau mit den umflorten Blicken
In deines Kindes Aug' hinein!

In seine Tiefen wird versinken
Der Erde tausendfaches Leid;
Aus ihm wird dir ein Engel winken,
Der Friede deiner Kinderzeit.

Confirmed with Gedichte von Georg Scherer, vierte, vermehrte Auflage, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Berlin, Wien: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1894, page 5

Text Authorship:

by Georg Scherer (1824 - 1909), "Kindesauge", appears in Gedichte von Georg Scherer, in 1. Erstes Buch [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by Ella Georgiyevna Adayevskaya (1846 - 1926), "Kindesauge", 1893 [ three-part women's chorus a cappella ], unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
by Adolf Wallnöfer (1854 - 1946), "Kindesauge", op. 66 no. 2 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "The eyes of a child", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2012-06-27
Line count: 8
Word count: 43

The eyes of a child

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

If there is no joy to refresh you,
If your heart is being consumed by misery and pain,
Then with your shrouded gaze look
Into the eyes of your child!

In their depths shall sink away
The thousandfold sorrow of the world;
From them an angel shall beckon to you,
The peace of your childhood.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Scherer (1824 - 1909), "Kindesauge", appears in Gedichte von Georg Scherer, in 1. Erstes Buch
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This text was added to the website: 2017-08-25
Line count: 8
Word count: 55