Talk:Valet will ich dir geben

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A fact from Valet will ich dir geben appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 April 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Sterbelied "Valet will ich dir geben" is described in a subtitle as a song of consolation, in which a pious heart bids farewell to this world?

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Will?

Gerda, what would you say was the force of the "will" in the title, at the time this was written? Moonraker (talk) 01:36, 14 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know much about a different meaning then, from today's "I make an effort to (even if it is hard / doesn't come naturally)". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:11, 14 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

First verse

Has anyone ever published a translation of this hymn? Here's an attempt at the first verse. (The need to find rhymes always changes the meaning slightly.) Moonraker (talk) 02:06, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Now fare thee well, I say to thee,

Thou false, ungodly World;

Thy plagues of sin and evil

I care no more to see.

My heart is fixed on Heaven,

There now I long to be;

May the Lord God's lordly welcome

For his servants come to me.

Beautiful. I started this article - improvement welcome - in memory of Cindy. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:58, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]