Stille Nachtluft -- komm zu mir herein Küsse meine tränennassen Wangen, Sag' mir, dass Du durch die Welt gegangen, Dass Du rein geblieben -- kühl und rein. Lieb' und Elend sahst Du -- Schuld und Flehn Bring mir all die alte wehe Kunde. Lehr' mich [lächelnd]1 mit erstarrtem Munde Kühl und einsam durch die Welt zu gehen.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Mein Land: Gedichte, Berlin und Leipzig: Schuster und Loeffler, 1901, page 45.
1 Wallnöfer: "lächeln"Text Authorship:
- by Margarete Susman (1874 - 1966), no title, appears in Mein Land: Gedichte, first published 1901 [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 Walter Courvoisier (1875 - 1931), "Stille Nachtluft", op. 2 (Sieben Lieder) no. 5, published 190-? [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolf Wallnöfer (1854 - 1946), "Stille Nachtluft", op. 80 no. 1 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
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