The glow of sunset | Sacred, glowing sunset!

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by Aloys Wilhelm Schreiber (1761 - 1841)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Du heilig, glühend Abendroth!

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE ITA

Du heilig, glühend Abendroth!
Der Himmel will in Glanz zerrinnen,
So scheiden [Märtyrer]¹ von hinnen
Holdlächelnd in dem Liebestod.

Des Aufgangs Berge still und grau,
Am Grab des Tags die hellen Gluten,
Der Schwan auf purpurrothen Fluten,
Und jeder Halm im Silberthau!

O Sonne, Gottesstrahl, du bist
Nie herrlicher, als im [Entfliehen]²,
Du willst uns gern [hinüber ziehen]³,
Wo deines Glanzes Urquell ist.

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• F. Schubert

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Confirmed with Poetische Werke von Aloys Schreiber. Erster Band. Tübingen, bei Heinrich Laupp. 1817, page 67; with Aloys Schreiber's Gedichte. Erster Theil. Neueste Auflage. Wien 1817. Bey B. Ph. Bauer, pages 68-69; and with Solothurnisches Wochenblatt für 1815. Herausgegeben von Freunden der vaterländischen Geschichte. Solothurn bey Ludwig Vogelsang, obrigkeitlichem Buchdrucker, Nro. 45. Samstag, den 11 November 1815, page 592.

¹ Schreiber (Wien 1817 edition), and Schubert: "Märterer"
² Schubert: "Entfliehn"
³ Schubert: "hinüberziehn"

Text Authorship:

by Aloys Wilhelm Schreiber (1761 - 1841), "Das Abendroth" [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 Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Das Abendrot", op. posth. 173 (Sechs Lieder) no. 6, D 627 (1818), published 1867 [ bass, piano ], C. A. Spina, VN 19179, Wien [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 68

The glow of sunset

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

 Sacred, glowing sunset!
 The sky positively melts into splendour;
 thus do martyrs depart,
 smiling sweetly as they die for love.
 
 The mountains, still and grey at dawn,
 are bright with fire as the day dies;
 the swan on purple-red water,
 every blade glistening with silver dew!
 
 O sun, God's light, you are
 never more magnificent than when you are withdrawing!
 You draw us gladly after you
 to find the source of your resplendence.

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 74