Sacht betrat ein gelber Stern

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Lightly stepped a yellow star

Language: English

Our translations: GER

Lightly stepped a yellow star
To its lofty place,
Loosed the Moon her silver hat
From her lustral face.
All of evening softly lit
As an astral hall -
"Father," I observed to Heaven,
"You are punctual."

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Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in The Single Hound, first published 1914 [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 Juliana Hall (b. 1958), "Lightly stepped a yellow star", 1985 [ soprano and piano ], from In Reverence - 5 songs for Soprano and Piano, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by William Keith Rogers (b. 1921), "Lightly stepped a yellow star", published 1948 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Three Songs from Emily Dickinson, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]

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Word count: 36

Sacht betrat ein gelber Stern

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Sacht betrat ein gelber Stern
seinen Himmelsfleck,
Luna zog das Silbertuch
vor ihrem Lächeln weg.
Abendhimmel matt erhellt 
wie ein Sternensaal -
„Vater“, sagte ich hinauf,
„pünktlich, Dein Signal.“

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a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in The Single Hound, first published 1914
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This text was added to the website: 2018-05-09
Line count: 8
Word count: 28