Mutter.
Blicke zum Himmel, mein Kind! dort wohnt dir ein seliger Bruder; 
  Weil er mich [nimmer]1 betrübt, führten die Engel ihn hin.

                 Kind.
Daß kein Engel mich je von der liebenden Brust dir entführe,
  Mutter, so sage du mir, wie ich betrüben dich kann!

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Confirmed with: Uhlands Werke in drei Teilen, Erster Teil. Gedichte, herausgegeben von Adalbert Silbermann, Berlin, Leipzig, Wien, Stuttgart: Deutsches Verlagshaus Bong & Co., [no year given], page 85.

¹ Incorrectly given as "immer" in at least one other edition.

Text Authorship:

• by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787 - 1862), "Mutter und Kind", appears in Sinngedichte [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 Marie Hinrichs (1828 - 1891), "Blicke zum Himmel", op. 1 (Neun Gesänge) no. 5, published 1846 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]

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• Also set in French (Français), a translation by Eugène Adénis-Colombeau (1854 - 1923) ; composed by César Antonovich Cui.
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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Mikhail Larionovich Mikhailov (1829 - 1865) ; composed by César Antonovich Cui.
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• ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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