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Wanderers Night Songs

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Wanderer's Night Song

Thou that from the heavens art,
Every pain and sorrow stillest,
And the doubly wretched heart
Doubly with refreshment fillest,

I am weary with contending!
Why this rupture and unrest?
Peace descending,
Come, ah come into my breast!

O'ver all the hilltops
Is quiet now,
In all the tree-tops
Hearest thou

Hardly a breath;
The birds are asleep in the trees:
Wait; soon like these
Thou too shalt rest.

Translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Goethe wrote the second part of "Wanderer's Night Song" in the lodge on the Kickelhahn mountain near Ilmenau.

From Ilmenau you can walk the 11.5 miles Goethe Hiking Trail via Manebach, across the 2824 foot Kickelhahn, via the Gabelbach hunting lodge to Stuetzerbach.

Goethe stayed in Stuetzerbach many times, visiting Daniel Gundelach, the owner of the local glassworks, or hunting with Duke Carl August.

You find an exhibition on hunting and on Goethe's scientific studies in the Gabelsbach hunting lodge and in Stuetzerbach you can visit the rooms Goethe used to stay in.

You return to Ilmenau by bus. You find the times of the busses by clicking into www.bahn.de - choose "Int.Guests" for the English version - or by asking the Ilmenau Tourist Information.

To walk to Kickelhahn from Ilmenau via Manebach takes about 1.5 hours. You reach the Kickelhahn hilltop in 30 minutes from the Herzogroeder parking lot via the Gabelbach hunting lodge.

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Manebach
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You buy Goethe poems translated by Longfellow and others at the international booksellers' network abebooks - from Abebooks US/Canada or from Abebooks UK

New translations of Goethe's poems are available from amazon.co.uk or from amazon.com.

You find a book with 200 of Goethe's main drawings posted from Germany by jpc.de and by amazon.de, or posted by amazon.com.

You also get a facsimile edition of a cycle of 22 drawings posted from Germany by jpc.de or by amazon.de.

You can also order recordings of the 'Lieder' music set to Goethe's poems from amazon.com, from amazon.co.uk or - posted from Germany - via jpc.de, including the 'Lieder' composed by Fanny Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.

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