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Weide, silbern Angesicht, [Weil]1 ich dich von weitem sehe, [Leidet mich's]2 und hält mich nicht, Bis ich grüßend vor dir stehe. Heut! -- Und oh, wie manches Jahr Kam ich, Weide, dich befragen! Denn ich wußte: Frühling war, Wenn du wieder ausgeschlagen. Jahr um Jahr dieselbe Tracht. Eh [die andern sich]3 bemühen, Weidenbaum bist aufgewacht Und beginnst alsbald zu blühen. Ich verspür die Wandlung kaum, Und sie hat dich schon durchdrungen; Gülden überm Silberflaum Künden mir die tausend Zungen. Botschaft, Jahr um Jahr erneut: Frühling kam, die Welt geht offen!-- Weide, die mein Herz erfreut: Wer ums Wunder weiss, lernt hoffen.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Rudolf Alexander Schröder, Gesammelte Werke in Fünf Bänden, Erster Band, Die Gedichte, Berlin und Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1952, pages 401-402.
1 Schelb: "Wenn"2 Schelb: "Leidet's mich"
3 Schelb: "sich die andern"
Text Authorship:
- by Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1878 - 1962), no title, written 1935, appears in Gedichte, in Die Weltlichen Gedichte, in Die Liederkreise, in Frühlingsanfang, no. 3 [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 Josef Schelb (1894 - 1977), "Weide, silbern Angesicht", from 4 Lieder der Besinnung, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Willow, silver-faced one", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Dr. Albert Schelb
This text was added to the website: 2018-03-19
Line count: 20
Word count: 104
Willow, silver-faced one, [Because]1 I see you from afar, I suffer and cannot restrain myself Until I stand before you in greeting. Today! -- And oh, as in many a year, I came, willow, to consult you! For I knew: it was spring When you had greened up again. Year upon year the same garb. Before the others take any trouble, Willow tree you have awoken And immediately begin to bloom. I hardly perceive the transformation, And it has already penetrated through you; Golden over silvery down The thousand tongues proclaim it to me. Message, renewed year after year: Springtime came, the world opens! -- Willow that gladdens my heart: He who knows about the miracle learns to hope.
1 Schelb: "When"
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2025 by Sharon Krebs, (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 Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1878 - 1962), no title, written 1935, appears in Gedichte, in Die Weltlichen Gedichte, in Die Liederkreise, in Frühlingsanfang, no. 3
This text was added to the website: 2025-01-02
Line count: 20
Word count: 119