by Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
Translation by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779 - 1850)

Theklas Sang
Language: Danish (Dansk)  after the German (Deutsch) 
Dybt skoven bruser, og skyen går.
Ved strandens blomsterbred pigen står.
Højt op skyller bølgen så brat, så brat,
og hun synger ud i den dæmrende nat,
af trøstesløs kummer henrevet.

Ak, hjertet er dødt, og hvorhen hun ser,
er intet, intet at ønske sig mer.
"Du hellige! kald da dit barn til dit bryst,
mig har jo alt henrykt den jordiske lyst,
jeg har jo alt elsket og levet."

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  • Also set in English, a translation by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937) CAT DAN DUT FRE RUS ; composed by Maude Valérie White.
  • Also set in French (Français), a translation by Robert de Bonnières (1850 - 1905) , "Schiller : La plainte de la jeune fille" CAT DAN DUT ENG ENG RUS ; composed by Vincent d'Indy.
  • Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (1783 - 1852) , "Тоска по милом", written 1807 [an adaptation] CAT DAN DUT ENG ENG FRE ; composed by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Aliabev, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, A. A. Pleshcheyev, Aleksei Nikolayevich Verstovsky, Mikhail Yur'yevich Viel'gorsky, Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskaya.

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