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Gesang Weylas
German source:
Eduard Mörike
Das ferne leuchtet;
Vom Meere dampfet dein besonnter Strand
Den Nebel, so der Götter Wange feuchtet.
Uralte Wasser steigen
Verjüngt um deine Hüften, Kind!
Vor deiner Gottheit beugen
Sich Könige, die deine Wärter sind.
Weyla's song
English translation ©
Richard Stokes
That shines afar;
Your sunlit shore sends up sea –
Mists, that moisten the cheeks of the gods.
Ancient waters climb,
Rejuvenated, child, about your waist!
Kings, who attend you,
Bow down before your divinity.
Translation © Richard Stokes, author of The Book of Lieder (Faber, 2005)
Gesang Weylas
German source:
Eduard Mörike
Weyla's song
English source:
Richard Stokes
Du bist Orplid, mein Land!
You are Orplid, my land!
Das ferne leuchtet;
That shines afar;
Vom Meere dampfet dein besonnter Strand
Your sunlit shore sends up sea –
Den Nebel, so der Götter Wange feuchtet.
Mists, that moisten the cheeks of the gods.
Uralte Wasser steigen
Ancient waters climb,
Verjüngt um deine Hüften, Kind!
Rejuvenated, child, about your waist!
Vor deiner Gottheit beugen
Kings, who attend you,
Sich Könige, die deine Wärter sind.
Bow down before your divinity.
Composer
Hugo Wolf
Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf was born on 13 March 1860, the fourth of six surviving children, in Windischgraz, Styria, then part of the Austrian Empire. He was taught the piano and violin by his father at an early age and continued to study piano at the…
Poet
Eduard Mörike
Eduard Friedrich Mörike was a German Romantic poet. Mörike was born in Ludwigsburg. His father was Karl Friedrich Mörike (d. 1817), a district medical councilor; his mother was Charlotte Bayer. He attended the Latin school at Ludwigsburg, and the…