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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. dost Thou longer .
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. 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.