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Dulde, gedulde dich fein! Über ein [Stündlein]1 Ist dein Kammer voll Sonne. Über den First, wo die Glocken hangen, Ist schon lange der Schein gegangen, Ging in Thürmers Fenster ein. Wer am nächsten dem Sturm der Glocken, Einsam wohnt er, oft erschrocken, Doch am frühsten tröstet ihn Sonnenschein. Wer in tiefen Gassen gebaut, Hütt' an Hütt'lein [lehnt]2 sich traut, Glocken haben ihn nie erschüttert, [Wetterstrahl ihn nie umzittert]3, Aber spät sein Morgen graut. Höh' und Tiefe hat Lust und Leid. Sag' ihm ab, dem thörigen Neid: Andrer Gram birgt andre Wonne. Dulde, gedulde dich fein! Über ein [Stündlein]1 Ist deine Kammer voll Sonne.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Gesammelte Werke von Paul Heyse. Erster Band. Gedichte, Berlin, Verlag von Wilhelm Hertz, 1872, page 1.
Note: in many older editions, the spelling of the capitalized word "über" becomes "Ueber", but this is often due to the printing process and not to rules of orthography, since the lower-case version is not "ueber", so we use "Über".
Note: modern German spelling would change "Thürmers" to "Türmers", "thörigen" to "törigen", etc.
1 Furtwängler, Pfitzner: "Stündelein"2 Furtwängler, Pfitzner: "lehnet"
3 Pfitzner: "Über ihm ist es, wenn es gewittert"
Text Authorship:
- by Paul Heyse (1830 - 1914), "Über ein Stündlein", appears in Gedichte, in Jugendlieder [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 Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl (1847 - 1907), "Dulde, gedulde dich fein", op. 14 (6 deutsche Lieder) no. 4, published 1881 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Wilhelm Reinhard Berger (1861 - 1911), "Über ein Stündlein", op. 30 (Acht Lieder und Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1888 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Raabe & Plothow [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Gustav) Adolf Brandt (1838 - 1919), "Dulde, gedulde dich fein", op. 7 (Zwei Gesänge für vierstimmigen Männerchor) no. 2, published 1893 [ four-part men's chorus ], Magdeburg, Heinrichshofen's Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Hans Fährmann (1860 - 1940), "Frühlingshoffen", op. 4 no. 1, published 1891 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Frühlingslieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 1, Dresden, Näumann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Clara Faisst (1872 - 1948), "Dulde, gedulde dich fein", op. 11 (Vier Lieder für eine hohe Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 4 (1914-8) [ voice and piano ], Karlsruhe: Selbstverlag, später: Karlsruhe: Müller [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Freudenberg (1838 - 1928), "Dulde, gedulde dich fein", op. 24 (Vier Gesänge für 2 Singstimme (Sopran und Alt) mit Pianoforte ) no. 4, published 1875 [ duet for soprano and alto with piano ], Leipzig, Kahnt [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886 - 1954), "Geduld", 1897 [ voice and piano ], unpublished ; manuscripts are in the Zurich Central Library [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Carl Hirsch (1858 - 1918), "Über ein Stündlein ", op. 18 (Zwei Gesänge für vierstimmigen Frauenchor mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1888 [ four-part women's chorus and piano ], Berlin, Luckhardt [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolf Jensen (1837 - 1879), "Über ein Stündlein", published 1882 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme und Pianoforte, no. 5, Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Klengel (1854 - 1935), "Über ein Stündlein", op. 20 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1902 [ soprano and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eduard Lassen (1830 - 1904), "Über ein Stündlein", op. 55 (Sechs Duette für Sopran und Alto mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 5, published 1875 [ duet for soprano and alto with piano ], Breslau, Hainauer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Erich Pfitzner (1869 - 1949), "Über ein Stündlein", op. 7 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1895 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Leopold Rosenfeld (1849 - 1909), "Dulde, gedulde dich fein", op. 16 no. 2, published 1881 [ voice and piano ], from Neue Lieder, no. 2, Hamburg, Thiemer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ludwig Stark (1831 - 1884), "Dulde, gedulde dich fein", op. 52 (Zwei- und mehrstimmige Gesänge für Soli und Chor (Sopran und Alt) mit Begleitung des Pianoforte), Heft 2 no. 1, published 1886 [ women's chorus and piano ], München, Falter & Sohn [sung text not yet checked]
- by Felix Paul Weingartner (1863 - 1942), "Über ein Stündlein", op. 25 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 6 (1899), published 1899 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bogumil Zepler (1858 - 1919), "Dulde, gedulde dich fein", op. 16 (Sechs Lieder für 1 höhere Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1895 [ high voice and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Donderwinkel
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 103
Endure, arm yourself well with patience! In a mere hour Your chamber shall be full of sunshine. Above the roof-ridge, where the bells hang, The radiance has long departed, It went into the window of the tower watchman. He who lives closest to the storm of the bells, He lives in solitude, is often startled, But he is the first to be comforted by sunshine. He who builds [his house] in deep alleys, Where hut leans cosily against hut, Bells have never unsettled him, [Lightning has never quivered about him]1, But his morning dawns late. Height and lowness have joy and sorrow. Reject foolish jealousy: A different affliction conceals within it a different joy. Endure, arm yourself well with patience! In a mere hour Your chamber shall be full of sunshine.
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View original text (without footnotes)Translated titles
"Über ein Stündlein" = "In a mere hour"
"Dulde, gedulde dich fein" = "Endure, arm yourself well with patience"
"Frühlingshoffen" = "Spring hopes"
"Geduld" = "Patience"
Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Paul Heyse (1830 - 1914), "Über ein Stündlein", appears in Gedichte, in Jugendlieder
This text was added to the website: 2011-06-01
Line count: 20
Word count: 131