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Du stiller Ort geliebter Einsamkeit mein Paradies, wo lauter Anmut blühet! wie innig wird mein Aug' und Herz erfreut, so bald es sich in deinem Schatten siehet! da leg' ich gleich, du meines Kummers grab, Verdruss und Last, bei deinem Eintrit, ab. Hier leb' ich frei, hier bin ich selber mein; kein falscher Blick belauschet mein vergnügen; und misch' ich auch ein wenig Torheit ein, so bleibet ihr, ihr wände, doch verschwiegen. Genung, daß sich mein Geist verneute Kraft zum klügern tun, selbst durch die Torheit, schafft. Heißt Einsamkeit den meisten ein Verdruß? Mir warlich nicht. Ich nenn' es mein ergötzen. Mich dünkt, ein Freund von vielen Freunden muß Verdacht und zwang für sein Vergnügen schätzen. Die Falschheit borgt ja stets der Freundschaft Schein. Ich bin bei mir: da kann ich sicher sein. Ich bin bei mir, ich, mein vertrautster Freund, Mein Zeitvertreib, mein täglicher Geselle; Und wer es nicht getreu und ehrlich meint, Der weiche nur von mir und dieser Schwelle! Ich suche nichts, denn deine Sicherheit, Du stiller ort geliebter Einsamkeit!
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author ( 'Z.' ) [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 Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767), "Die Einsamkeit" [ sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Poppy Holden) , "Solitude", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Poppy Holden
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 173
You quiet place of beloved solitude, my paradise, where only beauty flowers! how intimately you please my eyes and heart, when they see themselves in your shadow! There I lay down annoyance and leave it at your entrance, my sorrow's grave. Here I live freely, here am I mine; no stranger eavesdrops on my pleasure; and I mix also a little foolishness. Then stay, you walls, but discreetly. Enough that my spirit has the strength to create cleverly, even by foolishness. Is isolation called mostly an annoyance? To me it appears not. I call it my amusement. It seems to me, one friend of many friends must value suspicion and coercion for his pleasures. Falsehood really always borrows light from friendship. I am by myself: there I can be safe. I am by myself, I, my familiar friend, my pastime, my daily fellow; And he who does not intend to be faithful and honest, yields only to me and this threshhold! I seek nothing but your security, you quiet place of beloved isolation!
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 173