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by Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach (1784 - 1852)

Basslied
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Ihr Toren wollt das Glück euch wählen,
Wie ihr's euch klügelnd ausgedacht,
Und müsset doch das Ziel verfehlen
In eurer angebornen Nacht.

So wie ein eig'nes Haus, so hätte
Seine eig'nes Schicksal jeder gern,
Doch daß ihr in der grossen Kette
Nur Ringe seid, das liegt euch fern.

Wenn ihr das wär't, was ihr euch dünket,
Ihr ständet gleich dem Herrn der Welt;
Doch tiefer in den Staub nur sinket,
Wer keck zu Göttern sich gestellt.

Ihr Toren wollt das Glück euch wählen,
Wie ihr's euch klügelnd ausgedacht,
Und müsset doch das Ziel verfehlen
In eurer angebornen Nacht.

Text Authorship:

  • by Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach (1784 - 1852) [author's text not yet checked 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 Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869), "Basslied", op. 42 no. 12 (1833), from Die drei Wünsche, no. 12 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 98

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