Le chant de Zarathoustra | O Homme! Prends garde !

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

Translation by Henri Albert (1869 - 1921)

Eins!/ O Mensch! Gib Acht!

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT FRE GRE ITA SAN

     Eins!
O Mensch! Gib Acht!
     Zwei!
Was spricht, die tiefe Mitternacht?
     Drei!
„Ich schlief, ich schlief --,
     Vier!
„Aus tiefem Traum bin ich erwacht: --
     Fünf!
„Die Welt ist tief,
     Sechs!
„Und tiefer als der Tag gedacht.
     Sieben!
„Tief ist ihr Weh -,
     Acht!
„Lust - tiefer noch als Herzeleid:
     Neun!
„Weh spricht: Vergeh! 
     Zehn!
„Doch alle Lust will Ewigkeit -,
     Elf!
„-- will tiefe, tiefe Ewigkeit!“
     Zwölf!

L. Foss sets lines 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22
G. Mahler sets lines 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22

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Confirmed with Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra: ein Buch für Alle und Keinen, Volume 3, Chemnitz, Verlag von Ernst Schmeitzner, 1884, pages 111-112.

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by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), no title, appears in Also sprach Zarathustra

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CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Thomas Common) , no title
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) (Holger Christian Teipel-Jahr) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "O uomo! Attento ascolta!", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SAN Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्) (Holger Christian Teipel-Jahr) , "एकम्।", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Le chant de Zarathoustra

(Sung text for setting by A. Doyen)

Matches base text

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

O Homme! Prends garde !
Que dit minuit profond ?
J'ai dormi,
D'un profond sommeil je me suis éveillé :
Le monde est profond,
et plus profond que ne pensait le jour.
Profonde est sa douleur,
La joie plus profonde que la peine.
La douleur dit: Passe et finis !
Mais toute joie veut l'eternité,
Veut la profonde éternité !

Composition:

Albert Doyen

Poème lyrique, sur 6 poésies de : Verhaeren, Vildrac, Nietzche, Spire, Duhamel, Verlaine

Text Authorship:

by Henri Albert (1869 - 1921), appears in Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra, in 3. L'autre chant de la danse, no. 3, Paris, Édition du Mercure de France, first published 1903

Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), no title, appears in Also sprach Zarathustra
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