Veilchen sah ich [halbbeschneit]1
Zwischen Gras und Mose.
Veilchen, thust mir wahrlich leid,
Denk' ich an die Frühlingszeit
Und an manche Rose.
Veilchen aber sang mir zu :
Hoffe du, hoffe du!
Veilchen im tiefen Thal
Findet der Sonnenstrahl.

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Confirmed with Buch der Liebe von Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Breslau, bei Georg Philipp Aderholz, 1836, page 77.

¹ Mikuli: "halb verschneit"; further changes may exist not shown above.

Text Authorship:

• by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798 - 1874), no title, appears in Buch der Liebe, no. 127, Breslau, bei Georg Philipp Aderholz, first published 1836 [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 Alexis Holländer (1840 - 1924), "Veilchen", op. 32 (Sechs Lieder für 1 mittlere Stimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1883 [ medium voice and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger  [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alphonse Maurice (1856 - 1905), "Hoffe du", op. 9 (Sieben Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1881 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Mikuli (1819 - 1897), "Das Veilchen", op. 27 (Sieben Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]

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