'Abschied'

‘Abschied’, a well-known poem by J. von Eichendorff, which bears the superscription ‘Im Walde bei Lubowitz’. Its first line runs ‘O Täler weit, o Höhen’, and it is a farewell to the forests of the poet's home. It appears, untitled, in the novel Ahnung und Gegenwart. Two other poems by Eichendorff have the same title: the sonnet ‘Laß Leben, nicht so wild die Locken wehen!’ and the song ‘Abendlich schon rauscht der Wald’.