Morgen!
Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen
Und auf dem Wege, den ich gehen werde,
Wird uns, die Glücklichen, sie wieder einen
Inmitten dieser sonnenatmenden Erde...
Und auf dem Wege, den ich gehen werde,
Wird uns, die Glücklichen, sie wieder einen
Inmitten dieser sonnenatmenden Erde...
And tomorrow the sun will shine again,
and on the path that I shall take,
it will unite us again, the happy ones,
in the midst of this sun-breathing earth...
and on the path that I shall take,
it will unite us again, the happy ones,
in the midst of this sun-breathing earth...
Und zu dem Strand, dem weiten, wogenblauen,
Werden wir still und langsam niedersteigen,
Stumm werden wir uns in die Augen schauen,
Und auf uns sinkt des Glückes stummes Schweigen...
Werden wir still und langsam niedersteigen,
Stumm werden wir uns in die Augen schauen,
Und auf uns sinkt des Glückes stummes Schweigen...
And to the shore, the wide shore of blue waves,
we will descend, quiet and slow;
silently we will look into each other's eyes,
and upon us will sink the mute silence of happiness...
we will descend, quiet and slow;
silently we will look into each other's eyes,
and upon us will sink the mute silence of happiness...
About the song. Part of the set of four songs Strauss gave his bride, the soprano Pauline de Ahna, on their wedding day in 1894. The piano (or violin, in the orchestral version) begins the melody alone; the voice enters as if in mid-thought, and the song ends in a suspended, wordless calm.
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