Noch bist du mein!
Language: German (Deutsch)
Noch bist du mein!
Wie hat mein Herz geschlagen
Um dich voll Angst und Pein,
Mein Lieb, und bangem Zagen!
So oft ich sah mit Beben
Dir in die Augen dein,
Frug leis ich: O mein Leben,
Wie lang noch bist du mein?
Noch bist du mein!
Wie mag des Herren Güte
Doch würdig benedein
Mein jauchzendes Gemüthe!
Daß du mir neu geschenket,
Ihm sey die Ehr' allein, --
Feucht sich die Wimper senket:
Dank Gott, noch bist du mein!
Noch bist du mein!
Noch darf an deinen Blicken
Voll süßer Schmeichelein
Ich fürder mich erquicken;
Noch an dein Herz mich lehnen,
Der treusten Liebe Schrein,
Dir klagen all mein Sehnen,
O Glück, noch bist du mein!
Noch bist du mein!
Mein erstes Wort am Morgen
Muß stets dieß eine seyn
In Freuden wie in Sorgen;
Und wenn zur Erde nieder
Blitzt hell der Sternenschein,
Vor'm Schlafen sag' ich's wieder:
Dank Gott, noch bist du mein!
Noch bist du mein!
So lange Gott es füget,
O du, mein Edelstein,
Deß Leuchten nimmer trüget;
Schick nur in Gottes Walten
Mein Herz dich frisch hinein,
Es bleibt ja doch beim Alten --
Im Tod noch bist du mein!
Confirmed with Alpenrosen: ein Schweizer-Taschenbuch, Aarau und Thun: J. J. Christen, 1852, pages 205-206.
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Set in a modified version by Franz Wilhelm Abt.
Research team for this page: Sharon Krebs
[Senior Associate Editor], Melanie Trumbull
This text was added to the website: 2026-05-05
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Word count: 195
You are still mine!
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
You are still mine!
How my heart pulsed
Full of anxiety and anguish over you,
My love, and with fearful trepidation!
Whenever I with trembling
Gazed into your eyes,
I asked quietly: Oh, my life,
How long shall you still be mine?
You are still mine!
How can my rejoicing spirit
Worthily bless
The goodness of the Lord!
That you have been newly given to me,
The glory is His alone, --
My eyelids descend wet with tears:
Thank God, you are still mine!
You are still mine!
I am still able to refresh myself
With your glances
Full of sweet flatteries;
Still able to lean upon your heart,
The sweet shrine of most faithful love,
[Still able] to confess all my yearning to you,
Oh joy! you are still mine!
You are still mine!
My first word in the morning
Must ever be this one
In joys as in cares;
And when the radiance of the stars
Sparkles down to earth,
I say it once more before falling asleep:
Thank God, you are still mine!
You are still mine!
As long as God ordains it,
Oh you, my precious jewel,
Whose radiance never deceives!
My heart, only boldly give yourself
Over to God's workings,
For everything shall remain as it was --
Even in death you are still mine!
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