Summer blessings | We walk through a golden wheat field

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by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Sommersegen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Wir gehen durch goldenes Ährenfeld
und wissen tief zu schweigen . .
Die Sonne sinkt. Im Abendwind 
sich schwer die Halme neigen. 

Dein dunkles Auge glänzt und weilt
in Purpurwolkenweiten, 
und deine Hand streiſt über das Korn 
sacht im Vorüberschreiten.

So sacht, als wenn sie glückverträumt 
strich über ein Kinderbette 
und alles Glück der weiten Welt 
nun süß zu eigen hätte . .

Confirmed with Saat und Ernte. Die deutsche Lyrik unserer Tage in Selbstauswahlen der Dichter und Dichterinnen, Mit kurzen Eigenbiographien und Angabe ihrer Werke herausgegeben von Albert Sergel, Berlin und Leipzig: Deutsches Verlagshaus Bong & Co., [1924], page 258.

Text Authorship:

by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "Sommersegen" [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 Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "Sommersegen", op. 75 no. 5 (1932-3), from Sommersegen, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Summer blessings", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2024-01-07
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Summer blessings

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

We walk through a golden wheat field
and know how to keep deeply silent . .
The sun sinks. In the evening breeze
the stalks bend heavily.

Your dark eyes shine and dwell
in the expanses of crimson clouds,
and your hand brushes over the wheat
gently in walking past.

As gently as if, lost in happy dreams,
it stroked the bed of a child
and now had all the happiness 
of the wide world sweetly for its own . .

Text Authorship:

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "Sommersegen"
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This text was added to the website: 2024-12-13
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