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[Aus lang verschwundener]1 Völker Lieder her Klingt oft ein Ton verwandt uns bis ins Herz, Daß wir betroffen und mit halbem Schmerz Hinüberlauschen, ob dort Heimat wär. [So auch ist]2 unsres Herzschlags Ab und Auf In festem Bann geknüpft ans Herz der Welt, Das unsern Schlaf und unser Wachen hält Im Einklang mit der Sonn' und Sterne Lauf. Und unsrer wildesten Wünsche trübe Flut Und unsrer frechsten Träume Fieberbrand Ist Geist vom Urgeist, der noch nie geruht. So gehn wir, unsre Fackeln in der Hand, Gezeugt, genährt von uralt heilger Glut Und ewig neuen Sonnen zugewandt.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, pages 189-190.
1 Nørgaard: "Aus längst verschwundner"2 Nørgaard: "So ist auch"
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Zusammenhang", written 1912 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Johannes Nørgaard (b. 1916), "Zusammenhang", <<1961 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder für Mezzosopran aus: Hermann Hesse, "Vom Baum des Lebens" und "Musik des Einsamen", no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Justus Hermann Wetzel (1879 - 1973), "Zusammenhang", published 1959 [ voice and piano ], from Im stillen Reich - Sieben Lieder, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Interrelationship", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2009-05-26
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Word count: 98
From the songs of long-vanished peoples A kindred tone often rings right to our hearts, So that, taken aback and half with pain, We harken over yonder, if there might be a homeland there. Thus as well is the up and down of our heartbeat Knit in firm enchantment to the heart of the world, Which holds our sleeping and our waking In unison with the paths of the sun and the stars. And the murky flood of our wildest wishes And the feverish burning of our most audacious dreams Is spirit from the original spirit, who has never yet rested. Thus we go on, our torches in our hands, Begotten, nourished from the ancient holy glow And ever turned toward new suns.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Zusammenhang", written 1912
This text was added to the website: 2017-11-19
Line count: 14
Word count: 123