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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Translation © by Babbette Deutsch (1895 - 1982)

Alles wird wieder groß sein und gewaltig
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Alles wird wieder groß sein und gewaltig.
Die Lande einfach und die Wasser faltig,
die Bäume riesig und sehr klein die Mauern;
und in den Tälern, stark und vielgestaltig,
ein Volk von Hirten und von Ackerbauern.

Und keine Kirchen, welche Gott umklammern
wie einen Flüchtling und ihn dann bejammern
wie ein gefangenes und wundes Tier, –
die Häuser gastlich allen Einlaßklopfern
und ein Gefühl von unbegrenztem Opfern
in allem Handeln und in dir und mir.

Kein Jenseitswarten und kein Schaun nach drüben,
nur Sehnsucht, auch den Tod nicht zu entweihn
und dienend sich am Irdischen zu üben,
um seinen Händen nicht mehr neu zu sein.

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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Das Stunden-Buch, Leipzig : Insel-Verlag, 1918, p.71


Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Das Stundenbuch, in 2. Das Buch von der Pilgerschaft, no. 25 [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 Werner Egk (1901 - 1983), "Alles wird wieder gross sein", 1928 [ soprano and clarinet ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Willy Kehrer (1902 - 1976), "Alles wird wieder groß sein und gewaltig", op. 28, Heft 3 (Aus dem Stundenbuch) no. 3 (1922), first performed 1938 [ soprano and mezzo-soprano (ad libitum) and piano ], from Eine Rainer-Maria-Rilke-Stunde, no. 20, Thüringen : Willy-Kehrer-Archiv Schmölln [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in English, a translation by Babbette Deutsch (1895 - 1982) , "All will grow great and powerful again", copyright © ; composed by David Matthews.
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Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2023-09-03
Line count: 15
Word count: 105

All will grow great and powerful again
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch) 
All will grow great and powerful again
 [ ... ]

This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.

Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Poems from the Book of Hours, New Directions, 2018


Text Authorship:

  • by Babbette Deutsch (1895 - 1982), "All will grow great and powerful again", copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Das Stundenbuch, in 2. Das Buch von der Pilgerschaft, no. 25
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by David Matthews (b. 1943), "All will grow great and powerful again", op. 10 no. 6 (1975/1999), published 2003 [ soprano and piano ], from Book of hours, no. 6, London : Faber Music Ltd. [sung text not yet checked]

This text was added to the website: 2023-09-03
Line count: 15
Word count: 117

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