Hoe langer weg, hoe moeder man, 't en helpt al niet met wenschen: GOD groete U, GOD vertrooste U dan: 't nieuw jaar maakt de oude menschen.
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Text Authorship:
- by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899), no title, appears in Tijdkrans, in Nieuwjaarmaand, no. 1c [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):
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Rudolf Alexander Schröder) , no title, appears in Gedichte, in Die Übersetzungen, in Aus dem Niederländischen
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Je längrer Weg, je müdrer Mann, Da hilft kein Wünschen heute. Gott grüß dich, Gott vertröst dich dann: Neu Jahr macht alte Leute.
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Confirmed with Rudolf Alexander Schröder, Gesammelte Werke in Fünf Bänden, Erster Band, Die Gedichte, Berlin und Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1952, page 622.
Text Authorship:
- by Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1878 - 1962), no title, appears in Gedichte, in Die Übersetzungen, in Aus dem Niederländischen [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Dutch (Nederlands) by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899), no title, appears in Tijdkrans, in Nieuwjaarmaand, no. 1c
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Research team for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Harry Joelson
This text was added to the website: 2022-01-22
Line count: 4
Word count: 23