New Experience | Once again I see veils falling

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by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Neues Erleben

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Wieder seh ich Schleier sinken,
Und Vertrautestes wird fremd,
Neue Sternenräume winken,
Seele schreitet traumgehemmt.

Abermals in neuen Kreisen
Ordnet sich um mich die Welt,
Und ich seh mich eiteln Weisen,
Als ein Kind hineingestellt.

Doch aus früheren Geburten
Zuckt entfernte Ahnung her:
Sterne sanken, Sterne wurden,
Und der Raum war niemals leer.

Seele beugt sich und erhebt sich,
Atmet in Unendlichkeit,
Aus zerrißenen Fäden webt sich
Neu und schöner Gottes Kleid.

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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 231.

Text Authorship:

by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Neues Erleben", written 1914 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Krause (b. 1889), "Neues Erleben", op. 46 no. 10, published 1967 [ voice and piano ], from Zehn Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 10 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Christine Triacca-Kalisch (1887 - 1969), "Neues Erleben ", <<1939 [ soprano and piano ], from Zwei Lieder, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "New Experience", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Nouvelle expérience", copyright © 2017, (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: 2009-05-20
Line count: 16
Word count: 72

New Experience

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Once again I see veils falling,
And the most familiar becomes strange,
New expanses of stars beckon,
The soul strides, held back by dreams.

Once more in new circles
The world arrays itself around me,
And I see myself as a child
Standing among nothing but wise men.

But from earlier birthings
A distant intimation flickers hither:
Stars subsided, stars were born,
And the universe was never empty.

The souls bows down and rises up,
Breathes within the unending,
From torn threads God’s garment
Weaves itself anew and more beautifully.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Neues Erleben", written 1914
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This text was added to the website: 2019-04-13
Line count: 16
Word count: 90