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Time drops in decay, Like a candle burnt out, And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; What one in the rout Of the fire-born moods, Has fallen away?
Authorship:
- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "The moods" [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 Raymond Warren (b. 1928), "The moods", 1959 [ SSATB chorus a cappella ], from Irish Madrigals [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Göttliche Wirkmächte", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-20
Line count: 7
Word count: 32
Zeit tröpfelt im Vergehn der Kerze gleich, die brennt, auch Berge, Wälder, Haine in gleicher Weise gehn. Was, wenn aus dem Regiment feuer-gebor’ner Mächte eine nicht mehr bleibt bestehn?
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- Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2021 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in English by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "The moods"
This text was added to the website: 2021-04-12
Line count: 7
Word count: 29