A little spot of green | All the fields are still covered with snow

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by Friedrich Heinrich Oser (1820 - 1891)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Ein grünes Fleckchen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

  Verschneit noch alle Felder,
Und scharf und rauh der Wind;
So stumm noch alle Wälder,
Und jeder Zweig noch blind!
  Nur hier am Waldessaume,
Wo früh der Schnee zerthaut,
Blickt an mich, wie im Traume,
Ein grünes Fleckchen traut. 

  O! wie mir gleich so wonnig
Das Herz im Leibe lacht,
Als ob der Frühling sonnig
Schon wär' im Land erwacht!
  Und hilft mir musicieren
Auch noch kein Vögelein:
Doch muß ich jubilieren
Laut in den Wald hinein!

Confirmed with Liederbuch von Friedrich Oser, 1842-1874. Mit einem biographischen Verzeichnis der Componisten, Basel: Benno Schwabe, Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1875, pages 5-6.

Text Authorship:

by Friedrich Heinrich Oser (1820 - 1891), "Ein grünes Fleckchen ", appears in Liederbuch, in 1. Naturlieder, no. 3 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Philipp Tietz (1816 - 1878) [sung text not yet checked]
by Friedrich Weber (b. 1819) [sung text not yet checked]
by (Peter) Nicolai von Wilm (1834 - 1911), "Ein grünes Fleckchen", op. 52 (Drei Gesänge für gemischten Chor) no. 1, published 1885 [ mixed chorus ], Bremen, Praeger & Meier [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "A little spot of green", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Melanie Trumbull

This text was added to the website: 2017-11-23
Line count: 16
Word count: 78

A little spot of green

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

  All the fields are still covered with snow,
And the wind is sharp and rough;
All the forests are still so mute,
And every branch still blind!
  Only here along the edge of the woods,
Where the snow melts early,
As in a dream, there gazes at me
A dear little spot of green.

  Oh! how my heart immediately
Laughs so blissfully within me,
As if sunny springtime
Had already woken in the land!
  And though no birdlet yet helps
Me to make music:
Nevertheless I must send my rejoicing cry
Loudly into the forest!

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Heinrich Oser (1820 - 1891), "Ein grünes Fleckchen ", appears in Liederbuch, in 1. Naturlieder, no. 3
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This text was added to the website: 2024-03-28
Line count: 16
Word count: 96