How fair thou art | How fair thou art, yes fair, yes fair

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by Hans Adolf Brorson (1694 - 1764)

Translation © by Camilla Bugge

Hvad est du dog skjøn

Language: Danish (Dansk)

Our translations: ENG FIN

Hvad est du dog skjøn, ja skøn,
Ja skøn, du aller lifligste Guds Søn!
O du min Sulamit, Sulamit. Ja mit,
Ja mit, alt, hvad jeg har er også dit.

Min Ven, du est min, ja min,
Ja min; så lad mig altid være din!
Ja, evig vist, evig vist, ja vist, 
Ja vist! Du min skal blive her og hist

Men tænk, jeg er her, ja her,
Ja her iblandt så mange dragne Sværd!
O så kom, Due! kom Due! kom, ja kom!
Ja kom! I Klippens Rif er Ro og Rum.

Text Authorship:

by Hans Adolf Brorson (1694 - 1764) [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 Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907), "Hvad est du dog skjøn", op. 74 (Four Hymns) no. 1 (1906), published 1907 [ baritone and chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Camilla Bugge) , "How fair thou art", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Miten kaunis sinä oletkaan, niin kaunis", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2003-10-12
Line count: 12
Word count: 93

How fair thou art

Language: English after the Danish (Dansk)

How fair thou art, yes fair, yes fair,
Most precious son of God!
Oh my Shu'lamit, Shu'lamit, yes mine, yes mine,
all that I have is also thine.

My Friend, thou art mine, yes mine, yes mine;
So let me ever be thine own!
Yes, ever sure, ever sure, yes sure, yes sure!
Thou shallt be mine own both here and hence.

But think, I am here, yes here, yes here;
among so many unsheathed swords!
Oh come then, my Dove! come Dove! Yes come, yes come! 
In the cleft of the rock are calm and room.

Note by the translator: the poem is a parafrase on The Song of Songs, 4, and I tried to keep to the "flavour" of the King James Bible.

Text Authorship:

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a text in Danish (Dansk) by Hans Adolf Brorson (1694 - 1764)
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This text was added to the website: 2003-10-12
Line count: 12
Word count: 97