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So nahe lieget ihr beisammen In eurem Garten, stille Schar. Von eures Lebens grellen Flammen Loht keine mehr. Das Glockenläuten Will euch nicht Leid noch Lust bedeuten, Noch Anklang dessen, was einst war. Euch ist genug, dass in den Lüften Hoch über euch der Flieder blüht Und Sommernachts mit warmen Düften Ob eurer Stätte festlich glüht. Was noch in euch als Kraft, Begierde Und unerlöster Drang gelebt, Ist nun erlöst und frei und schwebt Im Duft dahin als Spiel und Zierde.
Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 154.
Authorship
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Dorfkirchhof", written 1908 [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 Heinrich Pestalozzi (1878 - 1940), "Dorfkirchhof", published 1923. [four-part men's chorus a cappella] [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by (Christian) Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Dorfkirchhof", op. 36 no. 7 [medium voice and piano], from Sieben Nacht- und Todeslieder für mittlere Singstimme und Klavier nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 7. [ sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Village churchyard", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Cimetière de village", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2009-05-26
Line count: 14
Word count: 81
You lie so close together In your garden, you silent throng. None of the lurid flames of your life Blazes any longer. The bells’ tolling Means neither sorrow nor joy to you, Nor an echo of that which once was. For you it is enough that in the breezes High above you the lilac blooms And on summer nights with warm scents Glows festively above your resting place. What yet lived within you as power, desire, And unredeemed urging, Is now redeemed and free and wafts Away in scent as play and adornment.
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Dorfkirchhof", written 1908
This text was added to the website: 2018-03-10
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Word count: 93