Der Mond scheint auf mein Lager,
Ich schlafe nicht,
Meine gefalteten [Hände]1 ruhen
In seinem Licht.

Meine Seele ist still, sie kehrte
Von Gott zurück,
Und mein Herz hat nur einen Gedanken:
Dich und [dein]2 Glück.

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Confirmed with Gesammelte Dichtungen von Gustav Falke, Erster Band: Herddämmerglück, Hamburg und Berlin, Alfred Janssen, 1912, pages 119-120.

¹ Voigt-Schweikert: "Hände sie"
² Webern: "mein"

Authorship

• by Gustav Falke (1853 - 1916), "Fromm", appears in Mit dem Leben. Neue Gedichte [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 Alban Maria Johannes Berg (1885 - 1935), "Fromm", 1905 [ voice and piano ], from Jugendlieder, Vol. II (1904-08), no. 40 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Hans Fleischer (1896 - 1981), "Fromm", op. 71 (6 Lieder für mittlere Singstimme und Klavier) no. 6 (1930) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Paul Hermann Franz Graener (1872 - 1944), "Fromm", op. 12 (Vier Lieder) no. 4, published 1909 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hugo Wilhelm Ludwig Kaun (1863 - 1932), "Fromm", op. 46 (Sechs Lieder) no. 4, published 1903 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Max Reger (1873 - 1916), "Fromm", op. 62 (Sechzehn Gesänge) no. 11 (1901) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 2 times]
• by August Reuss (1871 - 1935), "Der Mond scheint auf mein Lager" [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hans August Friedrich Zincke genannt Sommer (1837 - 1922), "Fromm", op. 40 (Vier Lieder) no. 1 (1899-1901), published 1909 [ voice and piano ], Braunschweig, Fr. Bartels [sung text not yet checked]
• by Margarete Voigt-Schweikert (1887 - 1957), "Fromm", op. 5 (Fünf Gedichte von Gustav Falke) no. 2 (1909), published 1913 [ voice and piano ], München, Wunderhorn-Verlag [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Anton von Webern (1883 - 1945), "Fromm", 1899-1903, from Drei Gedichte für Gesang und Klavier, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Pieux", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Jeroen Scholten

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