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Winter

Language: German

Der schönste Cherub kommt;
mit weitweißen sanften Schwingen 
schimmert er durchs Dunkel:
kalt, starr und schaurig und süß
wie der Wille Gottes,
heimatliederumraunt.


Input by Virginia Knight

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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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