Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang', Dann fliessen die Tränen zusammen; Und an mein Herz drück fest dein Herz, Dann schlagen zusammen die Flammen! Und wenn in die große Flamme fliesst Der Strom von [unsern]1 Tränen, Und wenn [dich mein Arm]2 gewaltig umschließt - Sterb' ich vor Liebessehnen!
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Heinrich Heine, Buch der Lieder, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg, 1827, page 115.
1 Zenger: "unsren"2 Jensen: "mein Arm dich"
Text Authorship:
- by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 6 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Evgenii Fedorovich Alenev (1864 - 1902), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 6 (9 Романсов с сопровождением фортепиано (9 Romansov s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano)) no. 5 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Lehn deine Wang'", c1920, unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fritz Becker (1839 - 1903), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 5 (Fünf Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1875 [ voice and piano ], Schwerin, Goltermann & Pincus [sung text not yet checked]
- by Elof Benktander (1894 - 1975), "Lehn' deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 9 no. 2 (1918) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacques (Jacob) Blumenthal (1829 - 1908), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 12 (Drei Lieder von Heine) no. 6 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard, Freiherr von Buddenbrock-Hettersdorff (1831 - 1891), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 2 (Vier Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Friedrich) August Bungert (1845 - 1915), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 33 no. 1, published 1884 [ alto and piano ], from Umfangend umfangen : Drei Lieder für Alt mit Pianoforte, no. 1, Berlin, Luckhardt [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gerard Bunk (1888 - 1958), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 13 (Zehn Lieder nach Texten von Heinrich Heine) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by August M. Canthal (1804 - 1881), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 280 (Zwei Lieder) no. 2, published 1875 [ voice and piano ], in Die musikalische Welt, Braunschweig, Litolff [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Howard Clutsam (1866 - 1951), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 1 (Six Songs) no. 2, published 1891 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georgy Aleksandrovich Demidov (1837 - 1870), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", 1861, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Heinrich Döring (1834 - 1916), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 15 no. 6, published 1869 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Dichtungen von Heinrich Heine, für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, no. 6, Dresden, Hoffarth [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Hans Fährmann (1860 - 1940), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 30 (Zwölf), Heft 1 no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paolo Felis , "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 2042 no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Don Forsythe (1932 - 2015), "Lehn deine Wang an meine Wang", published c2004, from Das Schwanenlied: sieben Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolai Vladimirovich Galkin (1856 - 1906), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Geisler (1856 - 1919), "Lehn' deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 1 no. 8, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], from Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung. 1. Folge. Zwölf Dichtungen von Heine und Rückert, no. 8, Berlin, Bote & Bock  [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georg Eduard Goltermann (1824 - 1898), "Liebessehnen", op. 7 (Fünf Gesänge) no. 4 [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ludwig Grünberger (1839 - 1896), "Lehn' deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 45, published 1887 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Hofmeister [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ludwig Hartmann (1836 - 1910), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 5 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Nürnberg, Zierfuss [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ludwig Hartmann (1836 - 1910), "Lehn deine Wang'", op. 10 no. 5, published 1864 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Concertlieder, no. 5, Leipzig, Schuberth und Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henrik Hennings (1848 - 1923), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 18 (Zwölf Lieder von Heinrich Heine) no. 10, published 1878 [ voice and piano ], Kopenhagen, Prior (Leipzig, Kistner) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johann Herbeck (1831 - 1877), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", 1851 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Hervey (1855 - 1922), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", published 1884, from Herzens Stimmen, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Caspar René Hirschfeld (b. 1965), "Junges Liebeslied", op. 67 (Deutsche Lieder : Buch I für Gesang und Gitarre) no. 6, published c2003 [ voice and guitar ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolf Jensen (1837 - 1879), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 1 (Sechs Lieder) no. 1 (1856), published 1858 [ voice and piano ], Breslau, Leuckart [sung text checked 1 time]
- by W. Jordan , "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", from Lieder, no. 10 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ludwig Keller (1847 - 1930), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 2 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2, published 1882 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Seitz [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gennady Osipovich Korganov (1858 - 1890), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", 1877, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Theobald Kretschmann (1850 - 1919), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 16 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 1, published 1882 [ voice and piano ], Wien, Wetzler [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franz Paul Lachner (1803 - 1890), "Liebessehnen", op. 33, Heft 2 no. 4, from Sängerfahrt : sechzehn Lieder nach Gedichten von Heinrich Heine, no. 11 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rued Langgaard (1893 - 1952), "Lehn deine Wang", BVN. 120 (1916), lost [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolph, Baron von Lauer-Münchhofen (1796 - 1874), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 6 (Sechs deutsche Lieder) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry J. Lautz , "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 3 (Heine-Lieder (Heine-Songs)) no. 6, published 1909, also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
- by W. J. Otto Lessmann (1844 - 1918), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 4 (Drei Lieder) no. 2, published 1869 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger [sung text not yet checked]
- by Emil Lindner (b. 1870), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", published 1912 [ high voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder für 1 hohe Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 2, München, Schmid Nachf. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Harvey Worthington Loomis (1865 - 1930), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'" [ voice, piano, and violoncello ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Ludwig (1852 - 1925), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", published 1880 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 4, Wien, Rättig  [sung text not yet checked]
- by Valentin Alekseyevich Makarov (1908 - 1952?), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'" [sung text not yet checked]
- by George W. Marston (1840 - 1901), "Lehn' deine Wang' an meine Wang'", published 1890 [ tenor or soprano and piano ], from Album für Sopran (oder Tenor) mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 10, Leipzig, A.P. Schmidt, also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Mayer (1831 - 1898?), "Lehn' deine Wang' an meine Wang'" [ baritone or alto and piano ], from 3 Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Meissner , "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Montag (1817 - 1866), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 2 (Drei Lieder von Heinrich Heine) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Emil Nauwerk , "Liebessehnen", op. 10 (Drei Lieder) no. 2, published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
- by Th. Neustadtl , "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", from Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin (1862 - 1901), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 2 no. 6, published 1888, from Sketchbook : a Group of Songs and Piano Pieces, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hermann Nürnberg (1831 - 1894), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 7 (Zwei Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Orff (1895 - 1982), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 9 (Sechs Lieder) no. 2 (1911) [ tenor and piano ], unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
- by Josef Overath (1872 - ?), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 24 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edna Frida Pietsch (1894 - 1982), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 6 (Neun Lieder) no. 4 (1930?), published 1980 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Pusztay , "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Josef Reiter (1862 - 1939), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", published 1891 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 1, Wien, Krämer [sung text not yet checked]
- by August Reiter (1852 - 1914), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 16 (Sechs Lieder für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1882 [ medium voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kahnt [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ludwig Rochlitzer (1880 - 1945), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine", op. 41 (1900) [sung text not yet checked]
- by M. Rothen , "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 5 (Lieder) no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksandr Ivanovich Rubets (1837 - 1913), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", 1868, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Rudnick (1850 - 1927), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 15 (Zwei Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gerhard Rühm (b. 1930), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", 1949, from Fünf Chansons mit einem Vorspiel nach Gedichten von Heinrich Heine, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Samson , "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", published 1873 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder und Gesänge für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte. II. Reihe, Heft I, no. 2, Dresden, Arnold  [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hermann Schäffer (1829 - 1900), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 2 (Drei Lieder für Sopran (oder Tenor) mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2, published 1880 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
- by Apolinary Scheluta (1884 - 1966), "Liebessehnen", op. 12 (Buch der Lieder : von Heinrich Heine) no. 9, published 1909? [sung text not yet checked]
- by Benno Schönberger (1863 - 1930), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 6 (Six songs) no. 3, published 1890, also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Schram , "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", published c1879 [ mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano ], from 6 Romancer, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), "Lehn deine Wang'", op. posth. 142 (Vier Gesänge) no. 2 (1840), published 1858 [ voice and piano ], Winterthur, Rieter-Biedermann [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ernst Arthur Seemann (1829 - 1904), as Nautilus, "Lehn deine Wang!", op. 5 (Fünf Lieder) no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Friedrich Siebmann , "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 40 (Sechs Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Johan Gustaf) Emil Sjögren (1853 - 1918), "Lehn' deine Wang'", op. 16 no. 5, published 1886 [ voice and piano ], from An Eine : fünf Lieder, no. 5, Breslau, Hainauer, also set in Swedish (Svenska) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Johan August Söderman (1832 - 1876), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", 1859, from Heidenröslein : Liederzyklus nach Heine, no. 5, also set in Swedish (Svenska) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1859 - 1922), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolay Feopemptovich Solovyov (1846 - 1916), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", published 1872, in Lieder [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Sternfeld (1858 - 1926), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 7 (Vier Lieder für Sopran oder Tenor mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1896 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Berlin, Fürstner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Victor von Styrcea , "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", published 1875 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder, no. 4, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcel Tyberg (1893 - 1944), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'" [ voice and piano ], from Song Cycle from Heinrich Heine's Lyrischen Intermezzo, no. 18 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anton Urspruch (1850 - 1907), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 6 (Liebeslieder nach Texten von Heinrich Heine), Heft 3 no. 1, published 1876 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frank Valentin Van der Stucken (1858 - 1929), "Lehn' deine Wang", op. 5 (Neun Gesänge) no. 4 (1878), published 1879 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner, also set in Dutch (Nederlands) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Julie von Waldburg-Wurzach, Fürstin (b. 1841), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 45, published 1886 [ medium voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 1, Stuttgart, Ebner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johan Weegenhuise (b. 1910), "Lehn' deine Wang", 1940, rev. 1989, from Jugendliederkreis, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Weinwurm (1878 - ?), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Friedrich von Wickede (1834 - 1904), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 2 (Drei Lieder für Tenor) no. 3, published 1871 [ tenor and piano ], Berlin, Bote und Bock [sung text not yet checked]
- by H. Willemsen , "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 3 (Zwei Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alexander Winterberger (1834 - 1914), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 10 (20 Gesänge) no. 8, published 1862 [ soprano or tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gotthard Wöhler (1818 - 1888), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 11 (Eine Dichterliebe : Liedergemälde) no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alexander Zemlinsky (1871 - 1942), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", subtitle: "Arie des Nettchen", published 1911 [ soprano and piano ], from operetta Kleider machen Leute : musikalische Komödie, Act II [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max Zenger (1837 - 1911), "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'", op. 1 (Sechs Lieder für Sopran mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 2 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by F. Zöhrer , "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang'" [sung text not yet checked]
The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Oscar Strasnoy (b. 1970), "Die Linde blühte, die Nachtigall sang" [ duet for soprano and tenor with piano ], from Heine, no. 8
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Dutch (Nederlands), a translation by H. Beverans ; composed by Frank Valentin Van der Stucken.
- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Alice Barnett.
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- Also set in English, a translation by Franklin Johnson , "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang", appears in Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine, ed. by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker, London: Walter Scott, Limited, pages 56-57, first published 1887 ; composed by Frank Bridge.
- Also set in English, a translation by J. B. Townsend ; composed by Emeline M. Grant.
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- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Una K. Hartree.
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- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Benjamin Lambord.
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- Also set in English, a translation by Bertha Raab ; composed by Henry J. Lautz.
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- Also set in English, a translation by Frederick W. Bancroft ; composed by George W. Marston.
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- Also set in English, a translation by Louis Napoleon Parker (1852 - 1944) ; composed by Louis Napoleon Parker.
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- Also set in English, a translation by F. C. Blackwood ; composed by Martin Roeder.
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- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Frederic S. Warburg.
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- Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Emma Bellucci.
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Mikhail Larionovich Mikhailov (1829 - 1865) , no title, written 1856 ; composed by Evgenii Fedorovich Alenev, Pavel Grigorevich Chesnokov, Georgy Aleksandrovich Demidov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Kiryakov, Gennady Osipovich Korganov, Pavel Semyonovich Makarov, Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, Aleksandr Ivanovich Rubets, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Villamov.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Pyotr Isayevich Veinberg (1831 - 1908) , no title ; composed by Nikolai Vladimirovich Galkin.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Dmitry Zernov.
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- Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Johan August Söderman.
- Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Emil Sjögren.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Posa la teva galta en la meva", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Leg nu je wang", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Lay your cheek against my cheek", copyright ©
- ENG English (Charles Godfrey Leland) , appears in The works of Heinrich Heine, first published 1900
- FRE French (Français) (Charles Beltjens) , no title, appears in Intermezzo lyrique, no. 6, first published 1827
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Poggia la tua guancia alla mia guancia", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- POL Polish (Polski) (Aleksander Kraushar) , no title, first published 1880
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Pierre Mathé [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Oprzéj swe usta o moje usta, A łzy nam z oczu popłyną ... Oprzéj swe piersi o moje piersi Wnet się z nich ognie wywiną... A gdy w ten płomień — jasnym strumieniem Łez naszych zdrój padać będzie... Gdy cię obejmę silném ramieniem — Skonam w miłosnym obłędzie...
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Text Authorship:
- by Aleksander Kraushar (1843 - 1931), no title, first published 1880 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 6
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
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Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2019-07-28
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Word count: 47