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The second of these pieces uses three cadential six-four chords to support the words  Strahlen, Leuchten, and Sterne, while the words Zusammen, and umschwammen are set to appoggiaturas. That song also claims "mists floated about me/ woven by blinding fate" and that "What to you are only eyes... shall be stars to us." The singer tells himself not to be anxious in the fourth of these works, which repeatedly claims the title figures are walking in the hills and that the day is fair. The fourth work in this cycle is addressed to a figure who "would step in/ with bright joy" following a woman who "who steps into the doorway." The fifth ends claiming the title figures "are covered by the hand of God"  and sees the singer bemoan the "roaring, cruel storm" which besets a "mother's house." The first work in this cycle claims "A little light has been extinguished in my household" and that the sun shines for everyone despite the misfortune that has afflicted the singer. The composer claimed "these ? five songs are intended as one inseparate unit." For 10 points, name this song cycle based on poems of Friedrich Rückert which preceded the death of its composer's daughter Maria by four years, a work of Gustav Mahler. 
The second of these pieces uses three cadential six-four chords to support the words  Strahlen, Leuchten, and Sterne, while the words Zusammen, and umschwammen are set to appoggiaturas.
{Kindertotenlieder} [or Songs on the Death of {Children}]