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Und endlich stirbt die Sehnsucht doch -- -- -- Wie Blüten sterben im Kellerloch, [Wenn sie ewig]1 auf ein bißchen Sonne warten. Wie Thiere sterben, die man lieblos hält, Und alles Unbetreute in der Welt! Man [denkt]2 nicht mehr: “Wo wird sie sein!--?!?“ Ruhig erwacht man, ruhig schläft man ein. Wie in verwehte Jugendtage blickst du zurück Und [irgend einer]3 sagt dir [weise]4: „'s ist dein Glück!“ Da denkt man, daß es vielleicht wirklich so ist, Wundert sich still, daß man doch nicht froh ist -- -- --.
About the headline (FAQ)
View text without footnotesConfirmed with Peter Altenberg, „Cyklus: Ljuba“ in Widmungen zur Feier des Siebzigsten Geburtstages Ferdinand von Saar’s, herausgegeben von Richard Specht, Wien: Wiener Verlag, 1903, page 39.
1 Eisler: "Die täglich"2 Eisler: "fragt"
3 Eisler: "irgendjemand"
4 Eisler: "leise"
Text Authorship:
- by Richard Engländer (1859 - 1919), as Peter Altenberg, no title, appears in Cyklus: Ljuba, first published 1932 [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 Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962), "Und endlich", 1953 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , no title, copyright ©
- ENG English (Dina Levias) , "And in the end", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 11
Word count: 87
And at last longing dies, as flowers die in the cellar, [ever waiting]1 for a little bit of sunlight, as animals die if one keeps them without love, and as do all the neglected people in the world! You no longer [wonder]2: "Where can it be found?" Calmly do you awaken, calmly do you fall asleep. As you look back on the vanished days of your youth, and someone says to you [wisely]3: "This is your good fortune!" , then you think that perhaps it really is true; yet silently you wonder why you are still not happy.
About the headline (FAQ)
View text without footnotes1 Eisler: "waiting daily"
2 Eisler: "ask"
3 Eisler: "softly"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf.
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Richard Engländer (1859 - 1919), as Peter Altenberg, no title, appears in Cyklus: Ljuba, first published 1932
This text was added to the website: 2017-09-29
Line count: 11
Word count: 101