And onward again place your staff | And onward again place your staff

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by Ferdinand Avenarius (1856 - 1923)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Ja, wieder weiter setz den Stab

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Ja, wieder weiter setz den Stab
    Und scheide,
Daß sich ein Bund, den Gott dir gab,
    Zerschneide!
Nicht jedes Herz, das blutet, bricht:
Noch stirbst du nicht,
    So leide!

Wie ichs im kühnsten Hoffen nie
    Gesonnen,
Im raschen Fluge hab ich sie
    Gewonnen --
Nun jagt mich wieder, ich weiß nicht, was,
Und bald ist alles, was ich besaß,
    Zerronnen.

Ob heut auch grauer Wolkenflor
    Sie kleide,
Zur hohen Sonne blick empor
    Und meide --
Ist düster auch ihr Angesicht,
Für immer sieht allein ihr Licht
    Uns Beide.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Ferdinand Avenarius, Wandern und Werden. Erste Gedichte, Zweite, neugestaltete Auflage, Florenz und Leipzig: Eugen Diederichs, 1898, page 46

Text Authorship:

by Ferdinand Avenarius (1856 - 1923), no title, appears in Wandern und Werden, in Blätter vom Meer [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 Paul Umlauft (1853 - 1934), "Und wieder weiter setz' den Stab", op. 35 (Sechs Lieder für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1890 [ medium voice and piano ], Leipzig, Klemm [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "And onward again place your staff", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2012-12-12
Line count: 21
Word count: 86

And onward again place your staff

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

And onward again place your staff
    And depart,
So that a bond that God gave you,
    Is cut!
Not every heart that bleeds [also] breaks:
You are not dying yet,
    So suffer!

As, in most audacious hoping, I never
    Thought,
In a rapid flight I have
    Won her --
Now I am once again driven on by I know not what,
And soon everything that I possessed shall have been
    Dissipated.

Even if today a grey shroud of clouds
    Clothes it,
Gaze up to the high sun
    And eschew --
Though its face may be somber,
Its light alone, forever, sees
    The two of us.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Ferdinand Avenarius (1856 - 1923), no title, appears in Wandern und Werden, in Blätter vom Meer
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This text was added to the website: 2017-12-11
Line count: 21
Word count: 103