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"
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Het avondrood", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "The glow of sunset", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Coucher de soleil", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Rosso di sera", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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[Guest Editor] This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 63
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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Word count: 73