Alt var dig, ja, alt var dig,
Dagens Jubel paa min Vei,
Dagen, da den skyløs hælded,
Dagen, da den brast mot Fjældet.

Aa farvel, du lyse Dag,
som nu segner mat og svag.
Roser, Roser, Roser røde,
skal i Afskedsstunden gløde!

Confirmed with Nils Vogt, Fra vaar til Høst, anden ogede og rettede Udgave, Kristiania, Olaf Norlis Forlag, 1904, p. 33.

Text Authorship:

• by Nils Collett Vogt (1864 - 1937), "Alt var dig", appears in Fra Vaar til Høst, first published 1894 [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):

• by Patrik Gyllenhammar (1871 - 1904), "Alt var Dig" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Sigurd Lie (1871 - 1904), "Alt var dig" [ duet for 2 voices and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Christian Sinding (1856 - 1941), "Alt var Dig", op. 36 no. 9, published 1897 [ voice and piano ], from Fra Vaar til Høst, no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Tu étais tout", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Eugen von Enzberg) , "Du mein All!", first published 1897

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-06-22
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Word count: 42