Und was auch in den Sternen Von dir geschrieben sei, Du mußt es lebend lernen, Dein Wandel steht dir frei. Die Bahn führt jeder Stelle, Da du gesendet stehst, Zum Himmel und zur Hölle. -- Schau, welchen Weg du gehst.
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Confirmed with Rudolf Alexander Schröder, Gesammelte Werke in Fünf Bänden, Erster Band, Die Gedichte, Berlin und Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1952, page 750.
Text Authorship:
- by Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1878 - 1962), "Du mußt es lernen", written 1927, appears in Gedichte, in Die Geistlichen Gedichte, in 1. Erstes Buch: Mitte des Lebens, in Vor Tau und Tag [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 Egon Joseph Wellesz (1885 - 1974), "Du musst es lernen", op. 47 no. 2 (1932) [ men's chorus a cappella ], from Drei geistliche Männerchöre, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "You must learn", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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