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Warum denn warten von Tag zu Tag? Es blüht im Garten, was blühen mag. Wer kommt und zählt es, was blüht so schön? An Augen fehlt es, es anzuseh'n. Die meinen wandern vom Strauch zum Baum; mir scheint, auch andern wär's wie ein Traum. Und von den Lieben, die mir getreu und mir geblieben, wär'st du dabei!
Authorship
- by Klaus Groth (1819 - 1899) [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 Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Komm bald", op. 97 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5 (1885), published 1886 [voice and piano], Berlin, Simrock [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , title 1: "Come soon", copyright ©
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , title 1: "Kom gauw", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Viens vite", copyright © 2011, (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: 8
Word count: 57
Why, then, wait from day to day? The garden blooms when it wants to bloom. Who comes to count everything that blooms so fair? No pair of eyes would be able to see everything. My own eyes wander from bush to tree; it seems to me that others would think it a dream. And of those lovers, who are true to me and love me, I wish you were among them!
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Klaus Groth (1819 - 1899)
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 71