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Flügel! Flügel! um zu fliegen Über Berg und Tal. Flügel, um mein Herz zu wiegen Auf des Morgens Strahl. Flügel, übers Meer zu schweben Mit dem Morgenrot, Flügel, Flügel über's Leben, Über Grab und Tod. Flügel, wie [die]1 Jugend hatte, Da sie mir entflog, Flügel, wie des Glückes [Schatte]2, Der mein Herz betrog! Flügel, nachzuflieh'n den Tagen, Die vorüber sind, Flügel, Freuden einzujagen, Die entfloh'n im Wind. Flügel, gleich den Nachtigallen, Wann die Rosen [flieh'n]3, Aus dem Land, wo Nebel wallen, Ihnen nachzuzieh'n. Ach! von dem Verbannungsstrande, Wo kein Nachen winkt, Flügel nach dem Heimatlande, Wo die Krone blinkt! Freiheit, wie zum Schmetterlinge Raupenleben reift, [Wann]4 sich dehnt des Geistes Schwinge Und die Hüll entstreift! Oft in stillen Mitternächten Fühl' ich mich empor Flügeln von des Traumes Mächten Zu dem Sternentor. Doch gewachsenes Gefieder In der Nächte Duft, Mir entträufeln seh' ich's wieder An des Morgens Luft. Sonnenbrand den Fittich schmelzet, Ikar stürzt in's Meer, Und der Sinne Brausen wälzet Über'm Geist sich her.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Schumann: "sie"
2 Schumann: "Schatten"
3 Schumann: "blühn"
4 Schumann: "Wenn"
Authorship:
- by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866), no title, appears in Lyrische Gedichte, in 3. Liebesfrühling, in 3. Dritter Strauß. Entfremdet [or Gemieden], no. 66 [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 Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold (1813 - 1889), "Flügel um zu fliegen ", op. 7 no. 5, published 1840, from 6 Lieder aus Fr. Rückert's Liebes-Frühling, no. 5, Darmstadt, Pabst  [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), "Flügel! Flügel! um zu fliegen", op. 37 no. 8 (1841), published 1841 [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf Gedichte aus Friedrich Rückerts Liebesfrühling [nos. 2,4,11 by Clara Schumann; the rest by Robert Schumann], no. 8, Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in English, a translation by Percy Boyd ; composed by Ellen Dickson, as Dolores.
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- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Vleugels! Vleugels! Om te vliegen", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Wings! wings! to fly", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Des aile ! des ailes ! pour voler", copyright © 2008, (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.
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Word count: 164
Wings! Wings! to fly over mountain and valley; wings, to cradle my heart upon the morning sunbeams! Wings, to float across the ocean with the reddish dawn; wings, wings over life, over the grave and death! Wings like those that youth has, for they have flown away from me; wings like Luck's shadow, that cheated my heart! Wings, to chase after the days that have passed! Wings, to hunt the joys that have escaped in the wind. Wings like those of the nightingales when the roses are blooming, to soar after them from the land to where the mists float! Wings! Wings! Ah! From the beach of exile, where no boats beckon, Wings, wings to the homeland, where my crown flashes! Freedom, just as a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly when the wings of the spirit sretch and graze the cocoon! Often at silent midnight I feel myself rising with wings of dreamlike power to the starry gate. But these wings which sprout in the fragrance of the night - I see them fall off again in the morning breeze. The burning sun melts the pinions; Icarus plunges into the sea, and the power of his intentions rolls here over his spirit.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866), no title, appears in Lyrische Gedichte, in 3. Liebesfrühling, in 3. Dritter Strauß. Entfremdet [or Gemieden], no. 66
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 40
Word count: 202