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In die braunen, rauschenden Nächte Flittert ein Licht herein, Grüngolden ein Schein. Blumen blinken auf und Gräser Und die singenden, springenden Waldwässerlein, Und Erinnerungen. Die längst verklungenen: Golden erwachen sie wieder, All deine fröhlichen Lieder. Und ich sehe deine goldenen Haare glänzen, Und ich sehe deine goldenen Augen glänzen Aus den grünen, raunenden Nächten. Und mir ist, ich läge neben dir auf dem Rasen Und hörte dich wieder auf der glitzeblanken Syrinx In die blauen Himmelslüfte blasen. In die braunen, wühlenden Nächte Flittert ein Licht, Ein goldener Schein.
Authorship:
- by Johannes Schlaf (1862 - 1941) [author's text not yet checked 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 Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Waldsonne", op. 2 (4 Lieder) no. 4 (1899) [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Sun in the forest", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Soleil dans la forêt", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , "Skogssol", copyright © 2012, (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: 18
Word count: 88
A light shimmers in the brown, rushing night, a green-golden sheen. Flowers shine forth and grass and the singing, springing rivulets and memories. All your songs of joy that faded away long ago: golden is their awakening again. And I see your lustrous golden hair, and I see your bright golden eyes shining through the green, whispering nights. And I fancy I lie on the grass beside you and hear you playing the shiny syrinx again under azure skies. A light shimmers in the brown, rolling nights -- a golden sheen.
Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2007 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Johannes Schlaf (1862 - 1941)
This text was added to the website: 2007-02-01
Line count: 18
Word count: 90