An autumn night message to Qiu | As I walk in the cool of the autumn night

by Wei Ying-Wu (736? - 830?)

Translation by Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968)

秋夜寄邱員外

Language: Chinese (中文)

懷君屬秋夜，
散步詠涼天。
空山松子落，
幽人應未眠。

Text Authorship:

by Wei Ying-Wu (736? - 830?), "秋夜寄邱員外" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Also set in English, a translation by Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968) , "An autumn night message to Qiu", appears in The Jade Mountain, first published 1929 ; composed by Edmund Duncan Rubbra.

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As I walk in the cool of the autumn...

Language: English after the Chinese (中文)

Our translations: GER

As I walk in the cool of the autumn night,
Thinking of you, singing my poem,
I hear a mountain pinecone fall;
You also seem to be awake.

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Text Authorship:

by Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968), "An autumn night message to Qiu", appears in The Jade Mountain, first published 1929 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Chinese (中文) by Wei Ying-Wu (736? - 830?), "秋夜寄邱員外"
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Edmund Duncan Rubbra (1901 - 1986), "An autumn night message", op. 116 no. 3 (1962) [ soprano and harp ], from The Jade Mountain, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website: 2008-07-25
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Word count: 28