Der Wind weht über den Wald, Wir sitzen im Wald in der Nacht, Der rote Wein in den Gläsern lacht, Unser Gesang in den Wipfeln hallt. Im Waldkeller liegt der Wein -- Wo sind die Reben, die einst geblüht?! Ihr erloschenes Sommerfeuer glüht Aus dem dunklen Keller in uns hinein. Bald liegen auch wir und sind tot, Haben Erde in Mund und Hand. Aber die Flamme, die uns gebrannt, Brennt weiter und flackert rot.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 263.
Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Zechen im Waldkeller", written 1919 [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 Siegl (1896 - 1978), "Tessiner Weinkeller im Wald" [ four-part men's chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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