Solace | I praise the one who gave me great happiness

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by Peter Cornelius (1824 - 1874)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Trost

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Der Glückes Fülle mir verlieh'n
  Und Hochgesang,
Nun auch in Schmerzen preis' ich ihn 
  Mein Leben lang.
Mir sei ein sichres Himmelspfand,
  Was ich verlor,
Mich führt der Schmerz an starker Hand
  Zu ihm empor.
Wenn ich in Wonnen bang beklagt
  Den Flug der Zeit,
In Schmerzen hat mir hell getagt
  Unsterblichkeit.

Confirmed with Gedichte von Peter Cornelius, eingeleitet von Adolf Stern, Leipzig, C. F. Kahnt Nachfolger, 1890, page 133.

Text Authorship:

by Peter Cornelius (1824 - 1874), "Trost", appears in Gedichte, in 2. Zu eignen Weisen, in Trauer und Trost [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 Peter Cornelius (1824 - 1874), "Trost", op. 3 no. 6 (1854), from Trauer und Trost, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Carl Noseda , "Trost", from Trauer und Trost, ein Liedercyclus für eine Singstimme mit Clavierbegleitung, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]

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Word count: 52

Solace

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

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I praise the one who gave me great happiness
and lofty song;
even in sorrow I will praise him
my whole life long.
To me, what I have lost is
a certain heavenly pledge;
Sorrow leads me by a strong hand
to Him above.
If in my bliss I apprehensively deplored
the flight of time,
in grief, I meet brightly the arrival of 
immortality.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Peter Cornelius (1824 - 1874), "Trost", appears in Gedichte, in 2. Zu eignen Weisen, in Trauer und Trost
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 64