Remembering | And once again the thrush is singing in the branches

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by Gustav Eberlein (1847 - 1926)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Gedenken

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Und wieder schlägt die Drossel im Gezweig
Des Blütenbaumes [jubelnd über]¹ mir;
Es öffnet sich des Lenzes Wunderreich,
Doch all mein Denken ist allein bei dir!
 
Von zartem Grün ist Baum und Busch belaubt.
Die Wonne all umher erdrückt mich schier;
Hier ruhte selig einst dein reines Haupt;
Ach, all mein Denken ist allein bei dir.
 
Geweiht von deinem Hauche Jahr um Jahr,
Für alle Zeit [ist]² diese Stätte mir.
Vorbei der Traum, so rein, so wunderbar,
Doch all mein Denken ist allein bei dir!

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• M. Wurm

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¹ Wurm: "über"
² Wurm: "bleibt"

Text Authorship:

by Gustav Eberlein (1847 - 1926)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Gustav Eberlein (1847 - 1926), "Gedenken" [ voice and piano ], in: Aus eines Bildners Seelenleben. Plastik, Malerei und Poesie bon Gustav Eberlein, Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig, Wien: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, [1892], pages 51-52. [sung text checked 1 time]
by Mary Wurm (1860 - 1938), "Gedenken", op. 25 (Neun Lieder) no. 3, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Georg Plothow [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English [singable] (Florence Z. Marshall) , "A memory"
ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Remembering", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2012-05-11
Line count: 12
Word count: 85

Remembering

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

And once again the thrush is singing in the branches
Of the blossoming tree above [me with rejoicing]¹;
The wondrous realm of spring is opening,
But all my thoughts are only with you!

Trees and bushes are leafed with delicate green.
The bliss all around is almost crushing me;
Once your innocent head rested happily here,
Ah, all my thoughts are only with you.

Sanctified by your breath year after year
This place [is] ² to me for all time.
The dream, so pure, so wondrous, is over,
But all my thoughts are only with you!

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¹ Wurm: "me"
² Wurm: "shall remain"

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This text was added to the website: 2021-09-18
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