Zij sluimert
Language: Dutch (Nederlands)
Zij rust in 't malsche mos, en houdt gebogen
Dien arm, dien mos en lokken beide streelen, -
Een sprei van groene schaduw, zacht bewogen,
Daalt uit de zilverloovers der abeelen;
Zij ademt zuchten, en zij lacht, als togen
Er droomen door heur ziel, die vroolijk spelen;
O, zoete hoop! Straks opent zij heure oogen,
Straks zal de hemel nieuwe heemlen telen:
Slaap zacht! Ik zie den donkren nacht genaken,
Dat gij Uw oog voor eeuwig houdt geloken, -
Dan sluimert gij, maar kunt niet meer ontwaken:
Dan zal de zode, die gij dekt, ú dekken,
Dan zal geen zonnestraal uw lippen strooken,
Geen lied van `t woud u uit dien sluimer wekken. -
Translation(s): ENG
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable): - ENG English (Rianne Stam) , title 1: "She slumbers", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Text added to the website: 2003-09-29T00:00:00.
Last modified: 2014-06-16T10:01:44
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Word count: 114
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She slumbers
Language: English after the Dutch (Nederlands)
She lounges on the soft moss, and holds curved
that arm, that both moss and locks caress, -
A cover of green shade, gently moving,
descends from the poplars' silvery foliage;
She breathes sighs, and laughs, as if
dreams coursed through her soul, playing cheerfully;
O, sweet hope! Soon she will open her eyes,
soon heaven will give rise to new heavens:
Sleep well! I see the dark night emerging,
when thou shalt keep thine eyes forever closed, -
Then thou shalt slumber, but canst not wake again:
Then will the turf, that thou now coverst, cover thee,
then no ray of sunlight will caress thy lips,
no song of the forest wake thee from thy slumbers. -
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Based on- a text in Dutch (Nederlands) by Jacques Fabrice Herman Perk (1859 - 1881), from "Mathilde, een Sonnettenkrans in vier Boeken", XXIII.
- This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Alphons Diepenbrock. Go to the text.
Text added to the website: 2003-09-29T00:00:00.
Last modified: 2014-06-16T10:01:44
Line count: 14
Word count: 118
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