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The summer nights are short Where northern days are long: For hours and hours lark after lark Trills out his song. The summer days are short Where southern nights are long: Yet short the night when nightingales Trill out their song.
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- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), no title, appears in Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, first published 1872 [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 George Whitefield Chadwick (1854 - 1931), "The northern days", published 1893 [ alto or baritone and piano ], note: text has been altered (changes not shown) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "The summer nights are short", published 1916 [ voice and piano ], from Kookoorookoo and other songs [sung text not yet checked]
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- GER German (Deutsch) (Beate Binnig) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-02
Line count: 8
Word count: 41
Die Sommernächte sind kurz wo nördliche Tage lang sind: Stundenlang, trillert Lerche nach Lerche, ihren Gesang. Die Sommertage sind kurz, wo südliche Nächte lang sind: Doch kurz ist die Nacht, wenn Nachtigallen ihren Gesang trillern.
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Based on:
- a text in English by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), no title, appears in Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, first published 1872
This text was added to the website: 2016-05-24
Line count: 8
Word count: 35