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I want to highlight a short and serene poem which Goethe "probably wrote [...] onto the wall of a wooden gamekeeper lodge on top of the Kickelhahn mountain wher
by FabHK 7y ago
I want to highlight a short and serene poem which Goethe "probably wrote [...] onto the wall of a wooden gamekeeper lodge on top of the Kickelhahn mountain where he [...] spent the night." [1]
It feels especially poignant these days, even haunting.
(If you want to hear it in German, Schubert turned into a “Lied” [2]).
Wandrers Nachtlied ("Wanderer's Nightsong")
Über allen Gipfeln
Ist Ruh,
In allen Wipfeln
Spürest du
Kaum einen Hauch;
Die Vögelein schweigen im Walde.
Warte nur, balde
Ruhest du auch.
O’er all the hilltops
Is quiet now,
In all the treetops
Hearest thou
Hardly a breath;
The birds are asleep in the trees:
Wait, soon like these
Thou too shalt rest.
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderer%27s_Nightsong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderer%27s_Nightsong
[2] for example https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SBTUcVxqEEA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SBTUcVxqEEA