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108: Warum willst du drauszen stehen.

Warum willst du drauszen stehen.--(Goed. 108.)

[Advent.]

Suggested by Gen. XXIV, 31. It appeared in Crü.--Runge, 1653, no. 78, in 9 stanzas of 8 lines; viz. stanzas I-VII, XI, XII, of the full form; stanzas VIII-X being added in Ebeling, 1667, 5, no. 50. The full text, in 12 stanzas, appeared also in Wackermagel: no. 2; Bachmann: no. 23; Unv. L. S.: 1851, no. 20.

English Versions:

1. Wherefore dost Thou longer tarry.

Miss Winkworth, omitting stanzas VIII-X, in her Lyra Ger., 2d Series, 1858, p. 6. In her C. B. for England, 1863, no. 153, the translation of stanzas III, V, XI, are omitted.

2. Wherefore dost Thou, blest of God.

R. Massie, in Lyra Domestica, 1864, p. 90.

3. Why, without, then, art Thou staying.

J. Kelly, 1867, p. 5.

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