Es wandelt, was wir schauen

Es wandelt, was wir schauen,
Tag sinkt ins Abendrot,
Die Lust hat eignes Grauen,
Und alles hat den Tod.

Ins Leben schleicht das Leiden
Sich heimlich wie ein Dieb,
Wir alle müssen scheiden
Von allem, was uns lieb.

Was gäb' es doch auf Erden,
Wer hielt' den Jammer aus,
Wer möcht' geboren werden,
Hielt'st Du nicht droben Haus!

Du bist's, der, was wir bauen,
Mild über uns zerbricht,
Daß wir den Himmel schauen -
Darum so klag' ich nicht.

by Josef Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff (1788-1857) , no title, from Geistliche Gedichte, in Der Umkehrende, no. 4

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

by Alban Maria Johannes Berg (1885-1935) , "Es wandelt, was wir schauen", 1904.
by Ernst Pepping (1901-1981) , "Ergebung", 1946, published 1949 [voice and piano], from Haus- und Trostbuch, no. 39.
by Karl Rausch (1880-1951) , "Ergebung" [voice and piano], from Elf Eichendorff-Lieder, no. 11.
by Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957) , "Ergebung", op. 30 no. 6 (1918).
by Ethel Mary Smyth, Dame (1858-1944) , "Es wandelt was wir schauen", op. 3 no. 4.

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