Evening | Like a line of dark-blue silence

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by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (1924 - 1942)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Abend

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Wie eine Linie dunkelblauen Schweigens
liegt fern der Horizont, von weichem Rot umsäumt.
Die Wipfel schaukeln leis wie ['m]¹ Banne eines Reigens,
das Licht ist wie im Märchen, sanft und blau verträumt.
Der Himmel ist noch hell, noch sieht man kaum die Sterne,
die Luft ist kühl und weich wie eine Frauenhand
und süße Melodie dringt aus der fernsten Ferne:
Musik einer Schalmei, zauberhaft, unbekannt.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• S. Grill

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Confirmed with Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, Blütenlese. Gedichte, Herausgegeben von Adolf Rauchwerger, Tel Aviv: Telaviv University [Press], 1979, page 36.

¹ Grill: "im"

Text Authorship:

by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (1924 - 1942), "Abend", written 1941, appears in Blütenlese, in Der Blütenlese Erster Teil, in Dunkler Flieder [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 Stanley Grill (b. 1953), "Abend", copyright © 2019 [ soprano, viola d'amore and cello ], from Blossoms, no. 7, confirmed with an online score [sung text checked 1 time]

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

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

Research team for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2019-08-07
Line count: 8
Word count: 66

Evening

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Like a line of dark-blue silence
the horizon lies in the distance, bordered by soft red.
The treetops sway quietly as if in the enchantment of a roundelay,
the light is as in fairy-tales, soft and lost in azure dreams.
The sky is still light, one hardly sees the stars as yet,
the air is cool and soft as the hand of a woman
and sweet melody comes from the most distant distance:
music of a shawm, magical, unfamiliar.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (1924 - 1942), "Abend", written 1941, appears in Blütenlese, in Der Blütenlese Erster Teil, in Dunkler Flieder
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This text was added to the website: 2024-06-09
Line count: 8
Word count: 79