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Entre le bœuf et l’âne gris Dort, dort, dort le petit fils Mille anges divins, mille séraphins Volent à l’entour de [ce grand dieu]1 d’amour. Entre les deux bras de Marie Dort, dort, dort le fruit de vie Mille anges divins, mille séraphins Volent à l’entour de [ce grand dieu]1 d’amour. Entre les roses et les lys Dort, dort, dort le petit fils Mille anges divins, mille séraphins Volent à l’entour de [ce grand dieu]1 d’amour. Entre les pastoureaux jolis Dort, dort, Jésus qui sourit Mille anges divins, mille séraphins Volent à l’entour de [ce grand dieu]1 d’amour. En ce beau jour si solennel Dort, dort, dort l’Emmanuel Mille anges divins, mille séraphins Volent à l’entour de [ce grand dieu]1 d’amour.
P. Ayres sets stanzas 1-3, 5
1 Ayres: "ce dieu"
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Paul Ayres (b. 1970), "Entre le bœuf et l'âne gris", stanzas 1-3,5 [ chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jurriaan Grootes , "Entre le boeuf et l’âne gris" [ chorus ], arrangement of a 13th-century song [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Willem Pijper (1894 - 1947), "Entre le bœuf et l'âne gris", 1918, published [1919] [ medium voice and piano ], from Noëls de France, arrangement et accompagnement de piano de Willem Pijper, no. 8, Utrecht, Éd. De Haan [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Finnish (Suomi), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lidy van Noordenburg) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English [singable] (Alexandra Glynn) , "Between the ox and the grey donkey", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2016-07-05
Line count: 20
Word count: 126
Soft on the hay in a cattle shed, Slumber in a manger bed. Lullay, little boy, purity and joy, Everlasting love that I longed to see. Mary embraces the little one. Slumber, God’s beloved son. Lullay, little boy, purity and joy, Everlasting love that I longed to see. Sweetly, where roses and lilies twine, Slumber, Lord and King divine. Lullay, little boy, purity and joy, Everlasting love that I longed to see. [...] Briars and thorns in a wreath are wound. Slumber, you shall wear a crown. Lullay, little boy, purity and joy, Everlasting love that I longed to see.
Text Authorship:
- Singable translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2016 by Alexandra Glynn, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
This text was added to the website: 2016-07-05
Line count: 17
Word count: 100