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by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899)

Gelukkig kind
Language: Dutch (Nederlands) 
  Gelukkig kind,
dat ligt en laat geworden
  al 't geen den mensch
zoo driftiglijk beroert!
 
  Gelukkig kind,
dat niet en peist op morgen,
  dat alles mint,
en nijdig niets beloert!
 
  Gelukkig kind,
dat elken stap in 't leven
  een stap vernaarst
aan 't heilig kinderland!
 
    Gelukkig kind,
  'k zou [alles]1 alles geven
voor uw geluk, [mijn]2 kind, dat ligt en roert in 't zand!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   E. van Nieuwenhove •   F. Roosbroeckx 

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Spelling changes used by Roosbroeckx : peist -> peinst; elken -> elke
Spelling changes used by Van Nieuwenhove: vernaarst -> vernaast

1 omitted by Van Nieuwenhove
2 Roosbroeckx: "m'n"

Text Authorship:

  • by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899), "Gelukkig kind", written 1860 [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 Peter Frans De Puysseleyr (1893 - 1961), "Gelukkig kind" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ernest Alphonse Isidore Raymond van Nieuwenhove (1880 - 1968), "Gelukkig Kind", 1906 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Felix Roosbroeckx , "Gelukkig kind" [ soprano and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2012-09-23
Line count: 15
Word count: 67

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