You are still as you came from your mother | You are still as you came from your mother

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by Hans Heinrich Ehrler (1872 - 1951)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Du bist noch so von Mutter her

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Du bist noch so von Mutter her.
Dein Wesen von dem feinen Ungefähr,
Das nur im ungestörten Garten weht.
Wie ist das seltsam, deine Wiege steht
In einer großen trüben Stadt,
Die außer dir doch keine Blumen hat.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Hans Heinrich Ehrler, Lieder an ein Mädchen, München: Albert Langen, [1912], page 17.

Text Authorship:

by Hans Heinrich Ehrler (1872 - 1951), no title, appears in Lieder an ein Mädchen [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 Margarete Schweikert (1887 - 1957), "Du bist noch so von Mutter her", op. 15 no. 2 (1922) [ tenor and piano ], from Lieder an ein Mädchen nach Gedichten von Hans Heinrich Ehrler, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

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ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "You are still as you came from your mother", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2022-09-18
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You are still as you came from your mother

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

You are still as you came from your mother.
Your nature [is] of the delicate approximation
That only wafts in an undisturbed garden.
How strange that is; your cradle stands
In a great, dreary city
That aside from you has no flowers.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Hans Heinrich Ehrler (1872 - 1951), no title, appears in Lieder an ein Mädchen
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This text was added to the website: 2022-10-05
Line count: 6
Word count: 42