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[Hast]1 du ein Herz gefunden, Das Liebe hegt und trägt, Und [hast]2 du selbst empfunden, Wie Lieb' im Busen schlägt: So [reich]3 dem schönen Bunde Mit Freuden deine Hand -- Nur einmal blüht die Stunde, Wo Herz zu Herz sich fand. Und siehst du wo zwei [Seelen In junger]4 Liebe glüh'n, Um nimmer sie zu quälen, Mußt Du von dannen zieh'n. Wie oft durch And'rer Kunde Zerriß das schöne Band -- Nur einmal blüht die Stunde, Wo Herz zu Herz sich fand. Was liebend sich vereinet, O brich es nicht entzwei, Es blühet für die Liebe Ja nur ein einz'ger Mai, Viel Blumen blüh'n im Grunde Und blühen an dem Strand: Nur einmal blüht die Stunde, Wo Herz zu Herz sich fand.
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Deutsche Lyrik: ein Sammelbuch zeitgenössischer Dichtung, herausgegeben von Hugo Bonté , Wien: Verlag von Friedrich Schalk, 1895, pages 66-67.
1 Bohm: "So"2 Bohm: "so"
3 Bohm: "gib"
4 Bohm: "Herzen / In stiller"
Text Authorship:
- by Karl Johann Hentschel , "Hast du ein Herz gefunden . . ." [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 Carl Bohm (1844 - 1920), "Nur einmal blüht die Stunde", op. 245 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alfred Michaelis (1854 - 1914), "Nur einmal blüht die Stunde", op. 15 (Drei Lieder für gemischten Chor) no. 3, published 1887 [ satb chorus ], Leipzig: Hug [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English [singable] (Louis Charles Elson) , "But once can come the hour"
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor], Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website: 2021-05-10
Line count: 24
Word count: 124
If you have found a heart That bears and cherishes love, And if you yourself have felt How love pulses in your breast: Then with joy [stretch out]1 Your hand to the lovely bond -- The hour blossoms only once In which two hearts find each other. And if somewhere you see two [souls]2 Glowing in [young]3 love, In order never to torment them You must take yourself off. How often through the words of others The lovely bond was torn -- The hour blossoms only once In which two hearts find each other. Those who have lovingly united, Oh, do not divide them, Because for love, there Only blooms a single Maytime, Many flowers bloom in the vale And bloom along the shore: The hour blossoms only once In which two hearts find each other.
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View text without footnotesTranslations of titles:
"Hast du ein Herz gefunden . . ." = "If you have found a heart . . ."
"Nur einmal blüht die Stunde" = "The hour blossoms only once"
2 Bohm: "hearts"
3 Bohm: "quiet"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2025 by Sharon Krebs, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Karl Johann Hentschel , "Hast du ein Herz gefunden . . ."
This text was added to the website: 2025-12-30
Line count: 24
Word count: 137