Comfort | Quiet! it is only a dream

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by Gustav Falke (1853 - 1916)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Trost

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT ENG FRE IRI

Still, still! 'S ist nur ein Traum,
  'S geht alles vorbei,
  Was es auch sei.
Spürest es kaum,
  'S ist nur ein Hauch,
  Wie du auch.

Text Authorship:

by Gustav Falke (1853 - 1916), "Trost" [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 Michael Brough (b. 1960), "Trost", op. 6 (Vier Lieder und Gesänge) no. 1 (1993) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Paul Ernst Francke (b. 1868), "Trost", op. 35 no. 1, published 1901 [ voice and piano ], from Vier lyrische und dramatische Gesänge für 1 Stimme mit Pianoforte, no. 1, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
by Max Reger (1873 - 1916), "Trost", op. 15 (Zehn Lieder für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 10 (1894), published 1895 [ medium voice and piano ], London, Augener & Co. [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Conhort", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Comfort", copyright ©
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Consolation", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , "Sólás", copyright © 2015, (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: 6
Word count: 26

Comfort

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

 Quiet! it is only a dream,
 for everything passes,
 whatever it may be.
 You will hardly feel it,
 it will only be a breath,
 just as you are.

Text Authorship:

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Gustav Falke (1853 - 1916), "Trost"
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 29