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Sing on, there in the swamp!

Language: English

Sing on, there in the swamp! 
O singer bashful and tender, [I hear your notes, I hear your call.
I hear.]1 I come [presently,]1 I understand you,
But a moment I linger, for [the lustrous star has detain'd me,]1
The star, my departing comrade, holds and detains me.


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1 omitted by Sessions

Input by Ahmed E. Ismail

Authorship
    * by Walt Whitman (1819-1892) , no title, from Memories of President Lincoln, in "When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd", no. 9

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Text is used as part of a longer work Set in German, adapted by Johannes Schlaf (1862-1941) GER

Date added to the website: 2003-11-04.

O, nun heb du an, dort in deinem Moor

Language: German

O, nun heb du an, dort in deinem Moor,
Lieber scheuer Sänger! Ich höre dein Lied,
ich vernehme deinen Ruf! Ich höre; ich bin da;
Ich verstehe dich.

Einen Augenblick nur säumte ich.
Weil der glänzende Stern mich zurückhielt;
Der Stern, mein scheidender Gefährte
machte mich säumen.


Input by Alberto Pedrotti

Authorship Based on
    * a text in English by Walt Whitman (1819-1892) , no title, from Memories of President Lincoln, in "When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd", no. 9

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

Date added to the website: 2003-11-04.