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Am Birkenzweige blättert Der volle Keim [sich auf]1; Das frohe Eichhorn klettert [Am]2 Stamm hinab, hinauf. Die trägen Winterschläfer: [Waldbiene, Wesp' und]3 Käfer Und Hummel, wachen auf. Mit grünen Wasserlinsen Färbst sich [das Wiesenmoor]4; Es hüpft [aus]5 Schilf, und Binsen Der muntre Frosch hervor. Die Wasserjungfern fliegen Am Ufer hin, und wiegen Sich froh am jungen Rohr. Und an den Gartenbämen Wird alles weiß und grün. Die Maienblümchen keimen, Holunder, und Jesmin. Bald wird die Ros', o Wonne! Am wärmern Strahl der Sonne Für [dich, mein Jettchen, blühn]6.
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Gedichte von Friedrich Wilhelm August Schmidt, Frankfurt und Leipzig: Christian Friedrich Himberg, 1796, pages 138 - 139.
1 Loewe: "herauf"2 Loewe: "den"
3 Loewe: "die Bienen und die"
4 Loewe: "der Wiesen Moor"
5 Loewe: "an"
6 Loewe: "alle Menschen blühn"
Text Authorship:
- by Friedrich Wilhelm August Schmidt (1764 - 1838), "Lied im Frühling, an Henrietten", appears in Gedichte, in 5. Fünftes Jahr [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 Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869), "Frühlingslied", <<1829 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (John H. Campbell) , no title, copyright ©, (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: 21
Word count: 95
On the birch branches, leaves are out in full-bud, the happy squirrel scrambles up and down the trunk, the dormant hibernators, the bees and the bugs, and bumble-bees awaken. Duckweed color the meadow bogs with green, the frog is tempted forth, to jump on reed and rushes the dragonfly flies o'er the strand and alights happily on the young reeds. And on the garden-trees everything is white and green, the May flowers sprout forth, Elder and jasmine, the rose, o bliss, comes soon! In the warm sunshine are blooms for everyone.
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Translations of titles:
"Frühlingslied" = "Spring song"
"Lied im Frühling, an Henrietten" = "Song in the springtime, to Henrietta"
Note: this is a translation of Loewe's version.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by John H. Campbell, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf.
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Wilhelm August Schmidt (1764 - 1838), "Lied im Frühling, an Henrietten", appears in Gedichte, in 5. Fünftes Jahr
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 21
Word count: 91