Nun trat der Abend ein und Dämmers Grau

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by John Milton (1608 - 1674)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Now came still Evening on, and Twilight...

Language: English

Our translations: FRI GER

Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray 
Had in her sober livery all things clad;
Silence accompanied; for [beast]¹ and bird,
They to their grassy couch, these to their nests 
Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;
She all night long her amorous descant sung;
Silence [was]² pleased....

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• C. Ives

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¹ Ives: "the beast"
² Ives: "is"

Text Authorship:

by John Milton (1608 - 1674), no title, appears in Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 598-604 [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 Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "Evening", 1921 [sung text checked 1 time]

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FRI Frisian (Geart van der Meer) , copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Nun trat der Abend ein und Dämmers Grau

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Nun trat der Abend ein und Dämmers Grau
verlieh der Welt ein schlichteres Gewand;
mit ihm die Stille kam; denn leise zog
das Wild zum weichen Lager, die Vögel
in ihr Nest, wach - nur noch die Nachtigall;
sie sang ihr Liebeslied die ganze Nacht;
der Ruh [gefiel’s]¹ …

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¹ Ives: "gefällt’s"

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a text in English by John Milton (1608 - 1674), no title, appears in Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 598-604
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This text was added to the website: 2020-05-11
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Word count: 49