O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst

O love, as long as you can love is a poem by Ferdinand Freiligrath, a German poet of the 19th century. Freiligrath wrote the poem the age of nineteen in 1829. 1845 set to music of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, the poem as an art song for solo voice and piano. The melody of the song used Liszt again in his 1850 published Liebestraum No. 3 for piano. In this version, she became one of Liszt's most famous tunes.

The entire poem by Ferdinand Freiligrath from which Liszt set to music the first four verses:

O love ', love as long as you can! O love ', love as long as you can! O love ', love as long as you like! The hour is coming, the hour is coming, Where do you stand at the grave and mourn! And take care that your heart is glowing And cherishes love and love bears Solang him another heart on the other In love hot counter strikes! And if you open up his chest, O tu him what you can, sake '! And Carry him every hour happy And make him not an hour cloudy! Take heed to thy tongue well, Soon a bad word is said! O God, it was not mean any harm, - The other but goes and complains. O love ', love as long as you can! O love ', love as long as you like! The hour is coming, the hour is coming, Where do you stand at the grave and mourn! Then you kneel at the tomb And hidest eyes, cloudy and wet, - You see the others never - Ins long, damp grass churchyard. And sayest, O -looking ' down on me, The crying here at your grave! Forgive that I've hurt you! ' O God, it was not meant to Wicked! But he sees and does not hear you, Does not mean you umfängst him happy; The mouth, which often kiss you to speak, Never again, I forgave you long ago! He did it, forgave you a long time already, But some hot tear fell To thee and to thy word herbes - But still - he is resting, he is on target! O love ', love as long as you can! O love ', love as long as you like! The hour is coming, the hour is coming, Where do you stand at the grave and mourn!

Reception

An excerpt of the song by Franz Liszt is heard at the end of the song play me the song of death of the German metalcore band Callejon.