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Wanderer's Nightsong

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Wanderer's Nightsong" is the title of two poems by the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Written in 1776 and in 1780 , they are among Goethe's most famous works. Both were first edited together in his 1815 Works Vol. I with the headings "Wandrers Nachtlied" and "Ein gleiches" . Both works were set to music as lieder by Franz Schubert as D 224 and D 768.

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“O'er all the hilltops
Is quiet now,
In all the treetops
Hearest thou
Hardly a breath;
The birds are asleep in the trees:
Wait; soon like these
Thou too shalt rest.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe book Wanderer's Nightsong

Wandrers Nachtlied (Wanderer's Nightsong)

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