Auf eines Kindes Tod | Nun muss ich dich zur ew'gen Ruhe betten

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Now I lay thee down to sleep

Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER

Now I lay thee down to sleep,
I pray the Lord thy dust to keep,
and if thou live before thou wake,
I pray the Lord thy soul to make.

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Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title [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 Gloria Coates (b. 1938), "On the death of a child", from 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson, no. 10 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Logan Skelton , "Now I lay thee down to Sleep", 2008 [ soprano and piano ], from Dickinson Songs, Book 2: The Unknown Peninsula, no. 11 [sung text not yet checked]

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FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Auf eines Kindes Tod", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Auf eines Kindes Tod

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Nun muss ich dich zur ew'gen Ruhe betten;
ich fleh' zum Herrn, er möge deinen Leib erretten;
und wenn du lebst, eh' du erweckt wirst sein,
hauche der Herr dir deine Seele ein.

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Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2007 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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a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
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This text was added to the website: 2007-12-03
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Word count: 33