Little wing of a maple seed, you hover in the wind!

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by Hildegard Jone (1891 - 1963)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Kleiner Flügel Ahornsamen schwebst im...

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Sopran:
 Kleiner Flügel Ahornsamen schwebst im Winde!
 Mußt doch in der Erde Dunkel sinken.
 Aber du wirst auferstehn dem Tage,
 all den Düften und der Frühlingszeit;
 wirst aus Wurzeln in das Helle steigen,
 bald im Himmel auch verwurzelt sein.
 Wieder wirst aus dir du kleine Flügel senden,
 die in sich schon tragen deine ganze
 schweigend Leben sagende Gestalt.

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Text Authorship:

by Hildegard Jone (1891 - 1963) [author's text not yet checked 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 Anton von Webern (1883 - 1945), "Kleiner Flügel Ahornsamen schwebst im Winde!", op. 29 no. 2 (1938-9), from Kantate Nr. 1, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Jeroen Scholten , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 10
Word count: 58

Little wing of a maple seed, you hover...

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Soprano:
 Little wing of a maple seed, you hover in the wind!
 Must nevertheless sink into the dark of the soil.
 But you shall be resurrected to the day,
 [to] all the scents, and [to] springtime;
 from roots you shall rise into the brightness,
 soon also to be rooted in heaven.
 Again you shall send forth from yourself little wings,
 which already carry within them your entire
 being that silently speaks “life.”

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Hildegard Jone (1891 - 1963)
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This text was added to the website: 2017-09-08
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Word count: 72