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Die Krähen schrein Und ziehen schwirren Flugs zur Stadt: Bald wird es schnein. - Wohl dem, der jetzt noch - Heimat hat! Nun stehst du starr, Schaust rückwärts, ach! wie lange schon! Was bist du Narr Vor Winters in die Welt entflohn? Die Welt - ein Tor Zu tausend Wüsten stumm und kalt! Wer das verlor, Was du verlorst, macht nirgends halt. Nun stehst du bleich, Zur Winter-Wanderschaft verflucht, Dem Rauche gleich, Der stets nach kältern Himmeln sucht. Flieg, Vogel, schnarr Dein Lied im Wüstenvogel-Ton! Versteck, du Narr, Dein blutend Herz in Eis und Hohn! Die Krähen schrein Und ziehen schwirren Flugs zur Stadt: Bald wird es schnein, - Weh dem, der keine Heimat hat!
Text Authorship:
- by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "Vereinsamt", written 1884 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Ernst Baeker (1866 - 1944), "Vereinsamt", op. 9 (Sieben Lieder und Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Verlag Kreisende Ringe [sung text not yet checked]
- by Dorothee Fischer (1894 - 1981), "Vereinsamt" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Vereinsamt", op. 320 (Fünf Lieder nach Friedrich Nietzsche) no. 4 (2021) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Dora Pejačević (1885 - 1923), "Vereinsamt", op. 53 (Drei Gesänge) no. 2 (1920), published 1919/20 [ baritone and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Rudi Spring (b. 1962), "Vereinsamt", op. 92 no. 6 (2013) [ baritone and piano ], from Wünschelrute. Liederzyklus für Bariton und Klavier , no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernest Vietor (flourished 1905-1930), "Vereinsamt", op. 13 no. 5 (1935-6) [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Lonely", copyright ©
- ENG English [singable] (Walter A. Aue) , "Lone", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Solitaire", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 111
Shrill shriek the crows that to the town in whirls roam: soon come the snows - weal unto him, who - has a home! Now you stand still, look back, alas! how far unfurled! You fool! You will escape the winter to the world? The world - a gate to thousand deserts, mute and chill! Who lost his fate, as you have lost, stands nowhere still. Now you are pale and cursed to wander winter's rise, like fumes prevail that always seek the colder skies. Seek, bird, and shriek your desert-bird-song, worn and torn! - And hide, you freak, your bleeding heart in ice and scorn! Shrill shriek the crows that to the town in whirls roam: soon come the snows - woe unto him, who has no home!
Text Authorship:
- Singable translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2010 by Walter A. Aue, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "Vereinsamt", written 1884
This text was added to the website: 2010-03-26
Line count: 24
Word count: 124