Die Sonne sank.
[Ich wartete. Wie lange]1 ...

Unsichtbar,
wie ersticktes Weinen,
klang unter [den]2 Weiden der Fluss.

Durchs Dunkel, neben mir, [taste ich nach den roten Blumen]3.

Sie sind welk.

Du hast mich vergessen!

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Confirmed with Phantasus, von Arno Holz, Zweites Heft, Sassenbach, Berlin, 1899, page 10.

¹ Marx: "Ich wartete lange"
² omitted by Marx.
³ Marx: "tast' ich nach roten Beeren"

Text Authorship:

• by Arno Hermann Oscar Alfred Holz (1863 - 1929), no title, appears in Phantasus, Heft 2 [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 Joseph Marx (1882 - 1964), "Vergessen", 1911, published 1912 [ medium voice, piano ], in Lieder und Gesänge, III. Folge, Nr.5 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Otto Vrieslander (1880 - 1950), "Vergessen" [sung text not yet checked]

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

• ENG English (Chris D. Godwin) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Le soleil s'est couché", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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