Snowdrop | Hark, lovely chiming!

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by Franz Alfred Muth (1839 - 1890)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Schneeglöckchen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

  Horch, liebliches Läuten!
Was will es doch sein?
O selig Bedeuten,
Ei, Frühling soll's sein!

  Und hast du im Herzen
Noch Eis und noch Schnee,
Noch Sorgen und Schmerzen,
Nun fort mit dem Weh!

  Schneeglöckchen rührt helle
Die Glöcklein so fein --
Wie ist's, du Geselle,
Du stimmst doch mit ein?

Confirmed with Franz Alfred Muth, Waldblumen, Dritte, durchaus ausgewählte und reich vermehrte Auflage, Paderborn: Druck und Verlag von Ferdinand Schöningh, 1885, page 7.

Text Authorship:

by Franz Alfred Muth (1839 - 1890), "Schneeglöckchen", appears in Waldblumen, in 1. Naturstimmen [3rd edition] [author's text checked 2 times 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 (Joseph) Joachim Raff (1822 - 1882), "Schneeglöckchen", op. 198 (10 Lieder für gemischten Chor) no. 8 (1860-74), published 1875 [ mixed chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Snowdrop", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2019-08-24
Line count: 12
Word count: 51

Snowdrop

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

  Hark, lovely chiming!
Whatever must that be?
Oh blessed significance,
Yes, it must be springtime!

  And if in your heart you
Still harbour ice and snow,
Still harbour anxieties and pains,
Away now with the sorrow!

  The snowdrop is brightly ringing
Its delicate little bells --
How now, ye comrade,
You are surely going to join in?

Translator's note: A literal translation of "Schneeglöckchen" would be "snow bell," which would fit with the ringing imagery in this poem.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Franz Alfred Muth (1839 - 1890), "Schneeglöckchen", appears in Waldblumen, in 1. Naturstimmen [3rd edition]
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This text was added to the website: 2020-10-15
Line count: 12
Word count: 57