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Es floh die Zeit im Wirbelfluge Und trug des Lebens Plan mit sich. Wohl stürmisch war es auf dem Zuge, Beschwerlich oft und widerlich. So ging es fort durch alle Zonen, Durch Kinderjahre, [Jugendglück]1, Durch Thäler, wo die Freuden wohnen, Die sinnend sucht der Sehnsucht Blick. Bis an der Freundschaft lichtem Hügel Die Zeit nun sanfter, stiller flog, Und endlich da die raschen Flügel In süßer Ruh zusammenbog.
Note: No published source of this poem is known. Most likely Schubert received the text in manuscript form from Széchényi, the dedicatee of Schubert's op. 7.
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Word count: 70
Time flew by in a swirling flight And took with it the plan of life. Quite stormy was it during the journey, Often exhausting and unpleasant. Thus it went forth through every age, Through childhood years, through youthful happiness, And through valleys in which joys live, Sought by the reflective gaze of Longing... Until, to the bright hill of friendship Time came, flying now more gently and tranquilly; And there at last it bent its swift wings Together in sweet repose.
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