The evening star | Are you still alone!

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by Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Enslin (1819 - 1875)

Translation © by John H. Campbell, W. Kommer

Bist ja noch ganz allein!

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Bist ja noch ganz allein!
Wollen die andern
Sterne und Sternelein
nicht mit dir wandern?

Himmelstor öffnet sich:
Einer zum Andern
kommt schon und suchet dich,
mit dir zu wandern.

Gott lässt dich nicht allein,
schickt schon bei Zeiten
all' seine Sternelein,
dich zu begleiten.

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Text Authorship:

by Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Enslin (1819 - 1875), "An den Abendstern", appears in [Lebensfrühling.] Gedichte für die Jugend [author's text not yet checked 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 Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869), "Der Abendstern", 1850, from Kinderlieder: Morgen-, Abend- und Nachtlieder, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (John H. Campbell) (W. Kommer) , "The evening star", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 45

The evening star

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

 Are you  still alone!
 Don't the other
 bright little stars
 want to wander with you?
 
 Heavens gate opens:
 One after another
 comes looking for you,
 to wander with you.
 
 God doesn't leave you alone,
 he sends with time
 all his stars
 to accompany you.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Enslin (1819 - 1875), "An den Abendstern", appears in [Lebensfrühling.] Gedichte für die Jugend
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 45