by Georg Scherer (1824 - 1909)
Kindesauge
Language: German (Deutsch)
Our translations: ENG
Will keine Freude dich erquicken, Verzehrt das Herz dir Gram und Pein, Dann schau mit den umflorten Blicken In deines Kindes Aug' hinein! In seine Tiefen wird versinken Der Erde tausendfaches Leid; Aus ihm wird dir ein Engel winken, Der Friede deiner Kinderzeit.
Confirmed with Gedichte von Georg Scherer, vierte, vermehrte Auflage, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Berlin, Wien: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1894, page 5
Text Authorship:
- by Georg Scherer (1824 - 1909), "Kindesauge", appears in Gedichte von Georg Scherer, in 1. Erstes Buch [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- by Ella Georgiyevna Adayevskaya (1846 - 1926), "Kindesauge", 1893 [ three-part women's chorus a cappella ], unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolf Wallnöfer (1854 - 1946), "Kindesauge", op. 66 no. 2 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "The eyes of a child", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2012-06-27
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