O Lied! O Lied!
Gij helpt de smert
wanneer de rampen raken,
gij kunt, o Lied, de wonde in 't hert,
de wonde in 't hert vermaken!
o Lied, o Lied!
Gij laaft den dorst,
gij bluscht het brandend blaken,
gij kunt, o Lied, de drooge borst
en 't wee daarvan doen staken.
o Lied! o Lied,
het zwijgend nat
dat leekt nu langs mijn kaken,
gij kunt het, en uw kunst is dat,
gij kunt het honing maken...
o Lied! o Lied!

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Spelling changes used by Bervoets: drooge -> droge
Spelling changes used by De Vocht: smert -> smart ; de wonde in 't hert -> de wond in 't hart
Spelling changes used by De Puysseleyr: drooge -> droge, honing -> honig
Spelling changes used by Goedertier: daarvan -> dervan ; leekt -> lekt
Spelling changes used by Robberecht: o Lied ! -> oh lied ! ; honing -> honig

Text Authorship:

• by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899), no title, 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 Frank Agsteribbe (b. 1968), no title [ voice, piano, and contrabass ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Hanna Beekhuis (1889 - 1980), "O, lied", 1949 [ soprano, violoncello and piano ], from Drie liederen, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Jean-Luc Bertel (b. 1955), "O lied" [ mixed chorus a cappella ], from Drie liederen, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Alfons (Fons) Bervoets (1907 - 1987), "O Lied" [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Alfons (Fons) Bervoets (1907 - 1987), "O Lied", 1940 [ men's chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Michel Decroos , "O lied", 1955 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Willem De Latin (1876 - 1942), "O Lied", 1904 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Peter Frans De Puysseleyr (1893 - 1961), "O Lied" [ voice, four-part mixed chorus, and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Peter Frans De Puysseleyr (1893 - 1961), "O lied" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Maurits Deroo , "O lied" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Lodewijk De Vocht (1887 - 1977), "O Lied", 1936 [ voice and string quintet ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Lodewijk De Vocht (1887 - 1977), "O Lied" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Frans C. D'Haeyer (1889 - 1971), "O Lied", 1908-10 [ voice and string orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Joseph Duclos , "O Lied" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Seraphien Lieven Duvosel (1877 - 1956), "O Lied!", 1918 [ voice and piano or orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Joseph Goedertier , "o Lied" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Robert Herberigs (1886 - 1974), "O Lied " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Harold C. King (1895 - 1984), "O Lied" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ernest Alphonse Isidore Raymond van Nieuwenhove (1880 - 1968), "O lied" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Raymond Robberecht , "Oh lied", op. 18 no. 4 (1959) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Paul Schollaert (b. 1940), "O lied" [ three-part chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by J. M. Servaes , "O lied", 1983 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Emiel Smets , "O Lied! " [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Herman Strategier (1912 - 1988), "O lied" [ four-part mixed chorus and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Berta (Albertina Wilhelmina) Tideman-Wijers (1887 - 1976), "O Lied", op. 3 (Vier Nederlandsche Liederen) no. 1, published 1923 [ voice and piano ], 's Gravenhage : Noske [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Lucien Van Branteghem , "O Lied", 1970 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ], from Gezelletriptiek [sung text not yet checked]
• by Stan Van Vaerenberg , "O Lied" [ voice, unaccompanied ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Hilmer Verdin , "O lied", 1954 [ three-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Edward Verheyden (1878 - 1959), "O Lied" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Arthur Vermeulen , "O Lied", 1913 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Pieter Vis , "O, Lied! " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Wilhelm Weismann (1900 - 1980), "O lied" [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in English, a translation by Christine D'Haen (1923 - 2009) , copyright © ; composed by Vic Nees.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1878 - 1962) , "O Lied", appears in Gedichte, in Die Übersetzungen, in Aus dem Niederländischen ; composed by Franz Ippisch, Christian Lahusen, James Martin Simon.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Walther Hensel (1887 - 1956) , copyright © ; composed by Walther Hensel.
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 83

O Lied, o Lied,
Du hilfst dem Schmerz,
Will Jammer mich verschmachten;
Du kannst, o Lied, das wunde Herz,
Das wunde Herz mir sachten.

O Lied, o Lied,
Du labst den Durst,
Du stillst die fahlen Gluten;
Du kannst, o Lied, die dürre Brust
Und all ihr Weh ermuten.

O Lied, o Lied,
Das bittre Naß
Der stummgeweinten Zähren,
Du kannst's -- und deine Kunst ist das --
Du kannst's in Honig kehren.
O Lied, o Lied!