Wenig [ist]1, was ich begehre,
Und doch steht es mir so fern: 
[Aus]2 dem ganzen Sternenheere 
Einen einz'gen lieben Stern!
Und was Himmel, Erd' und [Meere]3
Noch umfassen -- ließ ich gern! --

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Confirmed with J. Ch. Freiherrn von Zedlitz, Gedichte, Stuttgart and Tübingen: Verlag der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1832, page 99.

¹ Merxhausen (Decker): "ist's"
² Merxhausen (Decker): "Von"
³ Merxhausen (Decker): "Welten"

Text Authorship:

• by Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz (1796 - 1869), "Wunsch", appears in Gedichte, in Romanzen, Balladen, Lieder [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 Pauline von Decker (1811 - 1882), as Paul Friedrich Merxhausen, "Wunsch", published 1865? [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder, no. 5, Berlin: Verlag von Wilhelm Müller [sung text checked 1 time]

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

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