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Störe nicht den leisen Schlummer Dess, den lind ein Traum umfangen! Laß ihm seinen süßen Kummer! Ihm sein schmerzliches Verlangen! Sorgen und Gefahren drohen, Aber keine wird ihm schrecken, Kommst du nicht, den Schlafesfrohen Durch ein hartes Wort zu wecken. Still in seinen Traum versunken, Geht er über Abgrundtiefen, wie vom Licht des Vollmonds trunken, Weh' den Lippen, die ihn riefen!
Authorship:
- by Max Kalbeck (1850 - 1921), "Nachtwandler", appears in Nächte, in Aus Heimat und Fremde, first published 1878 [author's text not yet checked 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), "Nachtwandler", op. 86 (Sechs Lieder) no. 3 (1877?) [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Caminant de nit", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Slaapwandelaar", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Night wanderer", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le marcheur de nuit", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 61
Disturb not the gentle slumber Of one encircled by a relieving dream! Leave him his sweet anguish! [Leave] him his painful yearning! Troubles and dangers may threaten, But none will frighten him; Do not come to the happily-sleeping man To awaken him through some harsh word. Silently lost in his dream, He traverses deep chasms, as if drunk from the full moon's light; Woe to the lips that would call out to him!
Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Max Kalbeck (1850 - 1921), "Nachtwandler", appears in Nächte, in Aus Heimat und Fremde, first published 1878
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 73