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Du schweigst und duldest, denn sie verstehn dich nicht, Du edles Leben! siehest zur Erd' und schweigst Am schönen Tag, denn ach! umsonst nur Suchst du die Deinen im Sonnenlichte, Die Königlichen, welche, wie Brüder doch, Wie eines Hains gesellige Gipfel sonst Der Lieb' und Heimat sich und ihres Immerumfangenden Himmels freuten, Des Ursprungs noch in tönender Brust gedenk; Die Dankbarn, sie, sie mein' ich, die einzigtreu Bis in den Tartarus hinab die Freude Brachten, die Freien, die Göttermenschen, Die zärtlichgroßen Seelen, die nimmer sind; Denn sie beweint, so lange das Trauerjahr Schon dauert, von den vor'gen Sternen Täglich gemahnet, das Herz noch immer Und diese Totenklage, sie ruht nicht aus. Die Zeit doch heilt. Die Himmlischen sind jetzt stark, Sind schnell. Nimmt denn nicht schon ihr altes Freudiges Recht die Natur sich wieder? Sieh! eh noch unser Hügel, o Liebe, sinkt, Geschiehts, und ja! noch siehet mein sterblich Lied Den Tag, der, Diotima! nächst den Göttern mit Helden dich nennt, und dir gleicht.
Confirmed with Friedrich Hölderlin, Sämtliche Gedichte und Hyperion, Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1999, page 251.
Authorship:
- by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), "Diotima", appears in Gedichte 1800-1804, in Oden [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 Franz Alfons Wolpert (1917 - 1978), "Diotima", 1943 [sung text not yet checked]
Set in a modified version by Hans Erich Apostel.
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Diotima", copyright © 2019, (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 between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 164
You are silent and suffer it, for they do not understand you, You noble life! you look down and fall silent On the beautiful day, for ah! only in vain Do you seek your own in the sunlight, The noble ones, who, like brethren nevertheless, As the comradely treetops of a grove once Rejoiced in love and homeland and Their ever-embracing sky, In their resounding breast still recalling the origin; The grateful ones, they, them I mean, who alone faithful Brought joy all the way down into Tartarus, The free ones, the god-people, The tenderly great souls, who no longer exist; For over them yet weeps, as long the year of mourning Already endures, daily reminded by The former stars, the heart, And this dirge, it does not rest. But time heals. The heavenly ones are now strong, Are quick. Does Nature not once more Seize her old joyful due? See, ere yet our hill, oh love, sinks, It shall happen, and yea! my mortal song shall still see The day, Diotima! that calls your name next to those of the gods And those of heroes, and that is like you.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), "Diotima", appears in Gedichte 1800-1804, in Oden
This text was added to the website: 2019-03-02
Line count: 24
Word count: 191