So weiß im reichen Maienblust Die schmucken Bäume stehen, Es muß die ganze Blütenlust Im nächsten Wind verwehen. Auch deine jungen Tage, Kind, Und deine Lustgebärden, Sie müssen bald, so hold sie sind, Verblühn und dunkel werden. In Schmerzen nur und Dunkelheit Wird süße Frucht geboren. Doch ist sie reif, so war kein Leid Und war kein Weh verloren.
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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 145.
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Kind im Frühling", written 1907 [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 Theophil Laitenberger (1903 - 1996), "Kind im Frühling", 1922-4 [ medium voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder für mittlere Stimme zu Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hans Leicht (b. 1899), "Kind im Frühling", 1952 [ voice unaccompanied ], from Sieben ein- und zweistimmige Lieder, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alfred Stier (1880 - 1968), "Kindlein im Frühling", 1920 [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf Gesänge nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
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- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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