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Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG FRE
Auf! es dunkelt;
Silbern funkelt
Dort der Mond ob Tannenhöhn!
Auf! und tanzt in froher Runde; 
Diese Stunde
Dämmert unbewölkt und schön!

 ... 

Hüpft geschwinde
Um die Linde,
Die uns gelbe Blüten streut.
Laßt uns frohe Lieder singen,
Ketten schlingen,
Wo man traut die Hand sich beut.

Also schweben
Wir durchs Leben,
Leicht wie Rosenblätter, hin.
An den Jüngling, dunkelts bänger,
Schließt sich enger
Seine traute Nachbarin.

First published in a different version in Hamburger Musenalmanach 1789, see below.

Composition:

    Set to music by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Zum Rundetanz", op. 17 no. 3, D 983B, published 1823, stanzas 1,3,4 [ vocal quartet for 2 tenors and 2 basses ], Cappi und Diabelli, VN 1176, Wien

Text Authorship:

See other settings of this text.

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Kom voor de rondedans", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Michael Berridge) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 84