Night wanderer
Brahms, Johannes
Disturb not the gentle slumber
Of one encircled by a relieving dream!
Leave him his sweet anguish!
Leave him his painful yearning!
Troubles and dangers may threaten,
But none will frighten him;
Do not come to the happily-sleeping man
To awaken him through some harsh word.
Silently lost in his dream,
He traverses deep chasms,
as if drunk from the full moon's light;
Woe to the lips that would call out to him!