Nach dir schmacht' ich, zu dir eil' ich,...
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
Nach dir schmacht' ich, zu dir eil' ich, du, geliebte Quelle, du!
Aus dir schöpf' ich, bei dir ruh' ich, seh' dem Spiel der Wellen zu;
Mit dir scherz' ich, von dir lern' ich heiter durch das Leben wallen,
Angelacht von Frühlingsblumen, und begrüßt von Nachtigallen.
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Confirmed with Teutsche Sprachlehre für die Mittelschulen an der Universität zu Würzburg, Würzburg: Stahelischen Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1791. Page 224.
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- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Sharon Krebs
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For you I yearn, to you I hasten, you,...
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
For you I yearn, to you I hasten, you, beloved water-spring, you!
From you I draw [water], beside you I rest, looking at the play of the waves;
With you I jest, from you learn how to pass merrily through life,
Smiled upon by spring flowers and greeted by nightingales.
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Translations of title(s):
"Daphnis an die Quelle" = "Daphne at the water-spring"
"Die Quelle" = "At the water-spring"
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