232: Auf den Nebel folgt die Sonne.

Auf den Nebel folgt die Sonne.--(Goed. 232.)

[Thanksgiving after great sorrow and affliction.]

It appeared in Crü. Praxis, 1653, no. 236, and 1656, no. 249, in 15 stanzas of 7 lines; in Wackernagel: no. 87; Bachmann: no. 64; Unv. L. S.: no. 402. Cf. Koch IV, 545.

English Versions:

1. Cometh sunshine after rain.

Miss Winkworth in her Lyra Ger., 1st Series, 1855, p. 100 (omitting stanzas IV-VII, X, XI). In her 1856 ed. the translation of stanzas X and XI is added. In the Christian H. Bk., Cincinnati, 1865, no. 799 begins with her stanza no. XIII "Now as long as here I roam."

2. After clouds we see the sun.

J. Kelly, 1867, p. 261.

Selected Stanzas:

Miss Winkworth in her Lyra Ger., 1855.