Bid Them Sell My Bones

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Mondnacht, the fifth song of the Liederkreis (Op 39), a twelve-song cycle composed in 1840 by Robert Schumann (born 8 June, 1810; died 29 July, 1856) , setting poems by Joseph von Eichendorff (1788-1857); performed here by the alto Brigitte Fassbaender, and Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano

Mondnacht

Es war, als hätt’ der Himmel
Die Erde still geküsst,
Dass sie im Blütenschimmer
Von ihm nun träumen müsst.

Die Luft ging durch die Felder,
Die Ähren wogten sacht,
Es rauschten leis’ die Wälder,
So sternklar war die Nacht.

Und meine Seele spannte
Weit ihre Flügel aus,
Flog durch die stillen Lande,
Als flöge sie nach Haus.

Moonlit Night

It was as if the heavens
Had kissed the earth in silence,
And the earth, its shimmering blooms,
Dreamt of heaven alone.

A breeze blew through the fields,
The grain swayed gently
The trees shook softly,
The night was bright with stars.

And my soul
Spread wide its wings
And soared through the silent world
As if flying home.

Robert Schumann, in an 1850 daguerreotype by Johann Anton

(Reblogged from mhsteger)

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