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Ich [geb']1 dem Schicksal dich zurück, Von dem ich dich empfangen habe, Geliebte! -- Doch du weißt es nicht, Was ich mit deinem Bild begrabe. Dafür gibt es kein Menschenwort! Was aus der Brust mir ward genommen, Es ist nicht Hoffnung ist nicht Trost, Denn alles das kann wieder kommen. Es ist ein Etwas wunderbar, Das ewig schwindet aus dem Herzen -- Wenn uns die erste Täuschung trifft! Ein Etwas, das wir [nie]2 verschmerzen, Das Gott uns in die Wiege legt Als [unsrer Jugend]3 Morgengabe. Geliebte! -- O du weißt es nicht Was ich mit deinem Bild begrabe!
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Karl Stielers Werke, Fünf Teile in einem Band, ausgewählt und herausgegeben von Karl Quenzel, Zweiter Teil. Hochlandslieder, Leipzig: Hesse & Becker Verlag, [1916], page 62.
1 Lang: "gab"2 Lang: "nicht"
3 Lang: "uns'res Lebens"
Text Authorship:
- by Karl Stieler (1842 - 1885), "Zum Abschied", appears in Hochland-Lieder, in 12. Frau Minne, no. 5 [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 Ludwig von Erlanger (b. 1862), "Ich geb' dem Schicksal dich zurück", op. 23 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1889 [ voice and piano ], Wien, Gutmann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Josephine Lang (1815 - 1880), "Ich gab dem Schicksal dich zurück", 1868, published 1882 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Felix Josef Mottl (1856 - 1911), "Zum Abschied", published 1892 [ men's chorus ], from 19 Gedichte deutscher Dichter, Heft III, no. 4, Berlin, Fürstner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alexander Ritter (1833 - 1896), "Zum Abschied", op. 21 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1896 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Fritzsch [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Friedrich) Oskar Wermann (1840 - 1906), "Zum Abschied", op. 74 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 6, published 1893 [ voice and piano ], Zittau, Loebel [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 98
I [give]1 you back to Fate, Whence I received you, Beloved! -- yet you do not know What I bury with your image. There are no words known to man [To describe] what was taken from my breast; It is not hope, it is not comfort, For all of that may return. It is a wondrous thing That leaves the heart forever -- When we are struck by the first betrayal, A thing [for the loss of which] we [can never]2 be consoled, Something that God places in our cradle As [the morning-gift of our youth.]3 Beloved, oh you do not know What I bury with your image!
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View original text (without footnotes)Translated titles:
Zum Abschied = At leave-taking
Ich gab dem Schicksal dich zurück = I gave you back to fate
1 Lang: "gave"
2 Lang: "cannot"
3 Lang: "a dowry for our life!"
Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Karl Stieler (1842 - 1885), "Zum Abschied", appears in Hochland-Lieder, in 12. Frau Minne, no. 5
This text was added to the website: 2006-05-17
Line count: 16
Word count: 109