| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893. | | | | Translations | From the German.
Song of the Silent Land |
| | | | (Lied: Ins stille Land)
By Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis |
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INTO the Silent Land! | |
| Ah! who shall lead us thither? | |
| Clouds in the evening sky more darkly gather, | |
| And shattered wrecks lie thicker on the strand. | |
| Who leads us with a gentle hand | 5 |
| Thither, oh, thither, | |
| Into the Silent Land? | |
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| Into the Silent Land! | |
| To you, ye boundless regions | |
| Of all perfection! Tender morning-visions | 10 |
| Of beauteous souls! The Future’s pledge and band! | |
| Who in Life’s battle firm doth stand, | |
| Shall bear Hope’s tender blossoms | |
| Into the Silent Land! | |
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| O Land! O Land! | 15 |
| For all the broken-hearted | |
| The mildest herald by our fate allotted, | |
| Beckons, and with inverted torch doth stand | |
| To lead us with a gentle hand | |
| To the land of the great Departed, | 20 |
| Into the Silent Land! | | | |
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