Wieder seh ich Schleier sinken, Und Vertrautestes wird fremd, Neue Sternenräume winken, Seele schreitet traumgehemmt. Abermals in neuen Kreisen Ordnet sich um mich die Welt, Und ich seh mich eiteln Weisen, Als ein Kind hineingestellt. Doch aus früheren Geburten Zuckt entfernte Ahnung her: Sterne sanken, Sterne wurden, Und der Raum war niemals leer. Seele beugt sich und erhebt sich, Atmet in Unendlichkeit, Aus zerrißenen Fäden webt sich Neu und schöner Gottes Kleid.
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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 231.
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Neues Erleben", written 1914 [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 Franz Krause (b. 1889), "Neues Erleben", op. 46 no. 10, published 1967 [ voice and piano ], from Zehn Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 10 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Christine Triacca-Kalisch (1887 - 1969), "Neues Erleben ", <<1939 [ soprano and piano ], from Zwei Lieder, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "New Experience", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Nouvelle expérience", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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