Eichendorff: Above the Garden and Across the Sky

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by Josef Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff (1788-1857),

Set by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847) , “Frühling”, op. 7 no. 3., by Robert Alexander Schumann (1810-1856) , “Frühlingsnacht”, op. 39 no. 12 (1840), from Liederkreis, no. 12. Translation©Emily Ezust, Lied & Art Song Texts Page

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“Frühlingsnacht”

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Above the garden and across the sky
I heard migrating birds passing;
that meant that spring was in the air;
below, things are already beginning to bloom.

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I could rejoice, I could weep –
I feel as though it cannot be!
Old wonders appear again
with the moonlight.

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And the moon and stars say it,
and in a dream the grove murmurs it,
and the nightingales sing it:
She is yours! She is yours!

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, May 11, 2008. Eichendorff, Fanny Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann

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