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

Het leven is een' krijgsbanier
Language: Dutch (Nederlands) 
Het leven is een' krijgsbanier,
     door goede en kwade dagen,
gescheurd, gevlekt, ontvallen schier,
     kloekmoedig voorwaards dragen.

Men tuimelt wel, en wonden krijgt
     men dikwijls, dichte en diepe...
't en vlucht geen weerbaar man, die wijgt,
     of hem de dood beliepe!

Het leven is... geen vrede alhier,
     geen wapenstilstand vragen:
het leven is de Kruisbanier
     tot in Gods handen dragen!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   M. De Backer •   L. De Vocht 

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Spelling changes used by De Vocht: voorwaards -> voorwaarts ; dichte -> dicht
Spelling changes used by De Backer: voorwaards -> voorwaarts ; tuimelt -> tuimel ; wijgt -> wijkt
Spelling changes used by Mengelberg: voorwaards -> voorwaarts
Spelling changes by Röntgen: goede -> goed' ; voorwaards -> voorwaarts


Text Authorship:

  • by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899), "Het leven is een' krijgsbanier", written 1892 [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 Marcel De Backer (1924 - 2006), "Het leven is een krijgsbanier" [ 2-part women's chorus or 2-part men's chorus with piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Lodewijk De Vocht (1887 - 1977), "Het leven is 'n krijgsbanier" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Maxé Elisabeth Gerlings , "Het Leven" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by (Kurt) Rudolf Mengelberg (1892 - 1959), "Het leven", 1939 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Ivo Oscar Mortelmans (1901 - 1984), "Het leven is een krijgsbanier", 1954 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Julius Röntgen (1855 - 1932) and by Gerrit De Marrez Oyens , "Het leven is een krijgsbanier" [ women's chorus or men's chorus a cappella ], note: the melody is by Röntgen [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Julius Röntgen (1855 - 1932), "Het leven " [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Julius Röntgen (1855 - 1932), "Gezang 118 a" [ voice, unaccompanied ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jo Van Eetvelde , "Het leven", 1960 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Johan Weegenhuise (b. 1910), "Het leven is een' krijgsbanier", 1942, rev. 1979 [ voice and piano ], from Acht liederen, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-10-15
Line count: 12
Word count: 64

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