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[O]1 Schmetterling sprich, Was fliehest du mich? Warum doch so eilig, Jetzt fern und dann nah? Jetzt fern und dann nah, Jetzt hier und dann da -- Ich will dich nicht haschen, Ich thu' dir kein Leid. Ich thu' dir kein Leid: O bleib allezeit! Und wär ich ein Blümchen, So spräch' ich zu dir, So spräch' ich zu dir: Komm, komm doch zu mir! Ich schenk' dir mein Herzchen, Wie gut bin ich dir!
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Gedichte von Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Leipzig, Weidmann'sche Buchhandlung, 1843, page 533.
1 omitted by Schumann
Text Authorship:
- by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798 - 1874), "Wie gut bin ich dir!", appears in Kinderlieder [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 Otto Dresel (1826 - 1890), "Schmetterling", 1849 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), "Schmetterling", op. 79 no. 2 (1849), published 1849 [ voice and piano ], from Liederalbum für die Jugend, no. 2, Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel
Score: IMSLP [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Vlinder", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "How fond I am of you!", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le papillon", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: John Versmoren , Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 75
Oh papallona, digues, per què fuges de mi? Per què tens tanta pressa, adés lluny i adés a prop? Adés lluny i adés a prop, adés aquí i adés allà, no et vull pas agafar, no et faré cap mal. No et faré cap mal: oh, resta aquí per sempre! I si jo fos una flor, jo et diria, jo et diria: vine, vine cap a mi! Jo et donaria el meu petit cor, que bo que sóc per a tu!
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Translations of title(s):
"Schmetterling" = "La papallona"
"Wie gut bin ich dir!" = "Que bo que sóc per a tu!"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to Catalan (Català) copyright © 2020 by Salvador Pila, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798 - 1874), "Wie gut bin ich dir!", appears in Kinderlieder
This text was added to the website: 2020-10-16
Line count: 16
Word count: 81