Als prachtige dagen de aarde tooien

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by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)

Translation © by Lidy van Noordenburg

When days of beauty deck the earth

Language: English

Our translations: DUT

When days of beauty deck the earth
Or stormy nights descend
How well my spirit knows the path
On which it ought to wend

It seeks the consecrated spot
Beloved in childhood's years
The space between is all forgot
Its sufferings and its tears

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Note: in the Fisk work, this is sung by Cathy

Text Authorship:

by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848) [author's text not yet checked 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 Terry Fisk , "When days of beauty deck the earth", published 2002 [ voice, piano ], from Wuthering Heights, no. 47 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978), "Days of Beauty", 2017 [ chorus and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lidy van Noordenburg) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Terry Fisk

This text was added to the website: 2004-03-22
Line count: 8
Word count: 44

Als prachtige dagen de aarde tooien

Language: Dutch (Nederlands) after the English

Als prachtige dagen de aarde tooien
of stormachtige nachten vallen
Weet mijn geest zeker de baan
Die hij op zou moeten gaan

Hij zoekt de gezegende plaats, 
Geliefd in kinderjaren;
De tussentijd is vergeten helaas
Het lijden en de tranen.

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Translation of title "Days of Beauty" = "Prachtige dagen"

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Based on:

a text in English by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)
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This text was added to the website: 2023-06-08
Line count: 8
Word count: 40