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by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899)
Translation © by Christine D'Haen (1923 - 2009)

Een meezennestje is uitgebroken
Language: Dutch (Nederlands) 
Een meezennestje is uitgebroken,
dat, in den wulgentronk
gedoken,
met vijftien eikes blonk;
ze zitten [in]1 [den]2 boom te spelen,
tak-op, tak-af, tak-uit, tak-in, tak-om,
met velen
en 'k lach mij, ['k lach mij]3, 'k lach mij bijkans krom.

Het meezenmoêrtje komt getrouwig,
komt op den lauwen noen,
al blauwig
en geluwachtig groen;
het brengt hun dit en dat, om te azen,
tak-om, tak-op, tak-af, tak-uit, tak-in,
ze razen,
en kruipen, vlug, het [meezennestjen]4 in.

Het meezenvaârtje zit - de looveren
[verduiken]5 't voor 't gestraal -
te tooveren,
al in de meezentaal;
daar vliegen ze, al med' een, te zamen,
tak-om, tak-op, tak-af, tak-in, tak-uit,
en, amen,
het meezennestje is weêrom ijele en uit.

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Spelling changes used by Andelhof: meezennestje -> mezennestje; den wulgentronk -> de wilgentronk; meezenmoêrtje -> mezenmoêrtje; den lauwen -> de lauwe
Spelling changes used by Appeldoorn: den wulgentronk -> den wilgentronk; mij -> me; med' -> met
Spelling changes ued by D'Hooghe: den wulgentronk -> den wilgentronk
Spelling changes used by De Coninck: mij -> me; ijele -> ijle
Spelling changes used by Mervillie: uitgebroken -> uit gebroken ; zamen -> samen

1 Mervillie: "op"
2 Andelhof: "de"
3 omitted by D'Hooghe
4 Andelhof: "mez"; Appeldoorn, D'Hooghe, De Coninck, Dejoncker: "meezennestje"
5 D'Hooghe: "verkuiken"

Text Authorship:

  • by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899), "Het meezennestje"

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-09-19
Line count: 24
Word count: 119

The tom‑tit nest
 (Sung text for setting by V. Nees)
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Language: English  after the Dutch (Nederlands) 
A tom-tit nest has broken out
 [ ... ]
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Composition:

    Set to music by Vic Nees (b. 1936), "The tom-tit nest", 1976 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ], from Seven madrigals, no. 4

Text Authorship:

  • by Christine D'Haen (1923 - 2009), copyright ©

Based on:

  • a text in Dutch (Nederlands) by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899), "Het meezennestje"
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This text was added to the website: 2014-04-18
Line count: 23
Word count: 128

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