On a walk | She:/ "Fourleaf clover, rare discovery!

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by Eduard Mörike (1804 - 1875)

Translation © by Charles James Pearson

Auf dem Spaziergang

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Sie:
 Vierfach Kleeblatt, selt'ner Fund!
 Glückspfand! Holde Feengabe! Vielgesegnet
 sei der Grund, wo ich dich gepflücket habe!

Er:
 Von dem Felde aus dem Klee will ich
 mir kein Pfand erwarten, gibst du mir, du
 süße Fee, eins aus deinem Rosengarten.

Text Authorship:

by Eduard Mörike (1804 - 1875) [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 Hugo Distler (1908 - 1942), "Auf dem Spaziergang", op. 19 (Mörike-Chorliederbuch), Heft 1 no. 6 (1939) [ chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Fritz Franz Schieri (1922 - 2009), "Auf dem Spaziergang", 1993 [ vocal duet with piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Charles James Pearson) , "On a walk", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "En promenade", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Charles James Pearson

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 38

On a walk

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

She:
 "Fourleaf clover, rare discovery!
 Great good fortune!  a dear fairy's gift! Blessed be
 the ground whereon I picked it!"
 
He:
 "From the field of clover I shall
 expect no pledge if you but give me,
 sweet fairy, one from your rose garden."

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Eduard Mörike (1804 - 1875)
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 43