Bleib bei uns! Wir haben den [Tanzplan]1 im Tal 
bedeckt mit [Mondesglanze]2, 
Johanneswürmchen erleuchten den Saal, 
die Heimchen spielen zum Tanze. 

Die Freude, das schöne [leichtgläubige]3 Kind, 
[es]4 wiegt sich in Abendwinden: 
Wo Silber [auf Zweigen und Büschen rinnt,
da wirst]5 du die Schönste finden.

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¹ Marx: "Tanzplatz"
² Stöhr: "Mondenglanze"
³ Marx, Wolff: "leichtgläub'ge"
⁴ Wolff: "sie"
⁵ Marx: "über die Zweige rinnt,/ sollst"

Text Authorship:

• by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), "Elfe", appears in Gedichte, in 4. Frühling und Liebe [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 Eugen (Francis Charles) d'Albert (1864 - 1932), "Elfe ", op. 3 (Zehn Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 9, published 1886 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
• by Stephan Baekers , "Elfe", 1979, from Fünf Eichendorff-Lieder, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884 - 1920), "Elfe", A. 21 (c1905-11), published 1941 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gustav Hasse (1834 - 1889), "Bleib' bei uns, wir haben den Tanzplan im Thal ", op. 21 (Sechs Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte ) no. 3, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alexis Holländer (1840 - 1924), "Elfe ", op. 29 no. 5, published 1883 [ soprano and piano ], from Frühling und Liebe. Sechs Lieder für Sopran mit Pianoforte, no. 5, Berlin, Schlesinger  [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Kahn (1865 - 1951), "Elfe", op. 75 (45 Lieder für dreistimmigen Chor a capella) no. 38 (1924) [ three-part chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Karl) Emil Kauffmann (1836 - 1909), "Elfe", op. 3 (Vier Lieder) no. 4, published 1865 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Stuttgart, Zumsteeg [sung text not yet checked]
• by Meta ter Kuile-Troxler (1895 - 1940), "Elfe", op. 10b (4 Canti) no. 1, published <<1928 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Erwin Löwenfeld (1882 - 1949), as Erwin Lendvai, "Elfe", op. 2a no. 3 [ medium voice and piano ], from Romantisches Liederbuch I. Folge, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Joseph Marx (1882 - 1964), "Die Elfe", 1909, published 1910 [ female voice and piano ], in Lieder und Gesänge, I. Folge, Nr.6 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Karl Rausch (1880 - 1951), "Elfe " [ voice and piano ], from Elf Eichendorff-Lieder, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hugo Reichenberger (1873 - 1938), "Elfe", op. 2 (5 Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Klavierbegleitung) no. 3, published 1897 [ voice and piano ], München : Jos. Aibl Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (1824 - 1910), "Elfe", op. 32 (Sechs Lieder) no. 2 (1852) [ duet for 2 sopranos with piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (1824 - 1910), "Elfe", op. 100 (Zehn Gesänge) no. 10 (1868) [ vocal trio for female voices with piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by August Wilhelm Julius Rietz (1812 - 1877), "Elfe", op. 27 (7 Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1849 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Richard Stöhr (1874 - 1967), "Elfe", op. 14 (Sieben Lieder) no. 7, published 1907 [ voice and piano ], Wien (Vienna), Robitschek [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Ludwig Wilhelm Andreas Maria Thuille (1861 - 1907), "Elfen", op. 31 no. 3 (1904) [ vocal trio for 2 sopranos and mezzo-soprano with piano ], from Drei Lieder für drei Frauenstimmen solo nach Gedichten von Joseph von Eichendorff, no. 3, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Bruno Walter (1876 - 1962), "Die Elfe", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder von Josef von Eichendorff, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Weigl (1881 - 1949), "Elfe", op. 25 (8 Frauenchöre a capella) no. 2 (1906), published 1933 [ three- or four-part women's chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Julius Weismann (1879 - 1950), "Elfe", op. 43 (Fünf Lieder) no. 4 (1909/10), published 1912 [ voice and piano ], Tischer & Jagenberg [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Erich J. Wolff (1874 - 1913), "Elfe", op. 14 (Vier Gedichte von Eichendorff) no. 3, published 1907 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Franz Wüllner (1832 - 1902), "Elfe ", op. 31 (Sechs Lieder für dreistimmigen Frauenchor ohne Begleitung) no. 6, published 1874 [ three-part women's chorus a cappella ], Leipzig, Siegel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hermann Karl Josef Zilcher (1881 - 1948), "Elfe", op. 60 no. 6, published 1927 [ voice and piano ], from Eichendorff-Zyklus, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Stay with us! We have covered a clearing in the dell", copyright ©
• ENG English [singable] (John Bernhoff) , "The elves"
• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Elfe", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 45

 Stay with us! We have covered a clearing in the dell
 with moonlight for the dance;
 fireflies illuminate the hall
 and crickets are playing dance-music.
 
 Joy, the fair, overcredulous child,
 is lulled by the evening winds;
 where silver runs on branch and bush
 you will find the fairest girl.