Pilgrim's morning song
Richard Georg Strauss
Morning mists, Lila,
Wrap in your turret.
Should I not be able to see it
one last time!
Ah, but thousand images
of happy times
are floating in my memory
and warm my heart.
Like when he stood there,
witness to my pleasure,
when right from the beginning
you met
the timid me
with friendliness
and all of a sudden
threw into the soul
eternal flames!
Sizzle, Northwind,
with a thousand tongues
all around my head!
It won't bow to you!
You may bow,
immature twigs,
bereft of mother sun's
shelter.
All encompassing love!
Glowing through me;
You confront dangers head on,
shy away from no fight;
you have poured
into my prematurely tired heart
a renewed will to live:
joy in life
and confidence!