by Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847 - 1885)
Language: Danish (Dansk)
Alle de voksende Skygger Har vævet sig sammen til en, Ensom paa Himmelen lyser En Stjærne saa straalende ren, Skyerne have saa tunge Drømme, Blomsternes Øjne i Duggraad svømme, Underligt Aftenvinden Suser i Linden.
Note: modern Danish uses 'å' instead of 'aa' and does not capitalize nouns. It is also common not to capitalize the beginning of each line in modern publications.
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Composition:
- Set to music by Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867 - 1942), "Stemning", op. 11 no. 8 (1898) [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from 8 sånger för blandad kör, no. 8, also set in Swedish (Svenska)
Text Authorship:
- by Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847 - 1885), "Alle de voksende Skygger"
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Marie Herzfeld) , "Alle die wachsenden Schatten"
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 34