Southern carillon | From the bronze bell a note brightly escapes

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by Karl Stamm (1890 - 1919)

Translation © by Peter Palmer

Südliches Glockenspiel

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Dem Glockenerz sich hell ein Ton entringt
und hallt und wallt, um plötzlich zu erschweigen.
Horch! Jetzt ein zweiter, sich erlösend, singt.
Voll Lust, den Schwesterton zu übersteigen,
ein dritter laut sich in die Lüfte schwingt.
Nicht lange, und sie müssen stumm sich neigen
vor dunklerm Tone, der sie niederzwingt.
Nun stirbt auch er. Es lastet schwangres Schweigen.
Vergeblich harrst du, dass die Stille bricht:
Des Läutens Wehmut bannt dein Angesicht.

Confirmed with Karl Stamm, Dichtungen: Gesamtausgabe, erster Band, Zürich: Rascher & Cie., 1920, page 118. Appears in Wanderung und Lied.

Text Authorship:

by Karl Stamm (1890 - 1919), "Südliches Glockenspiel", appears in Dichtungen, in Wanderung und Lied [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 Meinrad Schütter (1910 - 2006), "Südliches Glockenspiel", 1934 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Peter Palmer) , "Southern carillon", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Peter Palmer , Melanie Trumbull

This text was added to the website: 2010-09-06
Line count: 10
Word count: 71

Southern carillon

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

From the bronze bell a note brightly escapes
and sounds and resounds before falling abruptly silent.
Hark! Now a second, releasing itself, is singing.
All keen to outdo the sisterly note,
a third soars loudly into the sky.
Before long these notes must bow mutely
before that darker one forcing them down.
Now even that note dies. There hangs a pregnant silence.
In vain you await a break in the hush:
The peal's sadness casts a spell on your visage.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Karl Stamm (1890 - 1919), "Südliches Glockenspiel", appears in Dichtungen, in Wanderung und Lied
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This text was added to the website: 2010-09-06
Line count: 10
Word count: 80