Een meezennestje is uitgebroken,
dat, in den wulgentronk
gedoken,
met vijftien eikes blonk;
ze zitten [in]1 [den]2 boom te spelen,
tak-op, tak-af, tak-uit, tak-in, tak-om,
met velen
en 'k lach mij, ['k lach mij]3, 'k lach mij bijkans krom.

Het meezenmoêrtje komt getrouwig,
komt op den lauwen noen,
al blauwig
en geluwachtig groen;
het brengt hun dit en dat, om te azen,
tak-om, tak-op, tak-af, tak-uit, tak-in,
ze razen,
en kruipen, vlug, het [meezennestjen]4 in.

Het meezenvaârtje zit - de looveren
[verduiken]5 't voor 't gestraal -
te tooveren,
al in de meezentaal;
daar vliegen ze, al med' een, te zamen,
tak-om, tak-op, tak-af, tak-in, tak-uit,
en, amen,
het meezennestje is weêrom ijele en uit.

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Spelling changes used by Andelhof: meezennestje -> mezennestje; den wulgentronk -> de wilgentronk; meezenmoêrtje -> mezenmoêrtje; den lauwen -> de lauwe
Spelling changes used by Appeldoorn: den wulgentronk -> den wilgentronk; mij -> me; med' -> met
Spelling changes ued by D'Hooghe: den wulgentronk -> den wilgentronk
Spelling changes used by De Coninck: mij -> me; ijele -> ijle
Spelling changes used by Mervillie: uitgebroken -> uit gebroken ; zamen -> samen

¹ Mervillie: "op"
² Andelhof: "de"
³ omitted by D'Hooghe
⁴ Andelhof: "mez"; Appeldoorn, D'Hooghe, De Coninck, Dejoncker: "meezennestje"
⁵ D'Hooghe: "verkuiken"

Text Authorship:

• by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899), "Het meezennestje" [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 Franz Andelhof , "Het mezennestje" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Dina Appeldoorn (1884 - 1938), "Het meezennestje", published 1909 [ voice and piano ], from Frissche bloemen, no. 4, 's-Gravenhage : Van Eck [sung text checked 1 time]
• by August De Coninck , "Het Meezennestje " [ voice unaccompanied ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Theo Dejoncker (1894 - 1964), "Het mezennestje" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Koen Dejonghe (b. 1957), "Het meezennestje", 1992 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Clément (later Bernardinus) D'Hooghe (1899 - 1951), "Het meezennestje", 1932 [ voice and piano or orchestra ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by L. A. Dobbelsteen , "Het Meezennestje", op. 9 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Cornelius Dopper , "Het mezennestje" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Cornelius Dopper , "Het mezennestje" [ men's chorus and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Irène Fuerison (1875 - 1931), "Het meezennestje", op. 39 (1917) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jan Masséus (1913 - 1999), "Het meezennestje", op. 53 (1979) [ children's chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Kurt) Rudolf Mengelberg (1892 - 1959), "Het meezennestje" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Alfons Mervillie (1856 - 1942), "Het meezennestje" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Willem Pelemans (1901 - 1991), "Het meezennestje" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Wilhelm Rettich (1892 - 1988), "Het meezennestje", op. 11 no. 8 [ men's chorus a cappella ], from Guido Gezelle Suite: 13 Lieder für Männer-, Frauen-, Knaben- und Gemischten Chor a capella, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Marcel Thys , "Het Meezennestje" [ voice, unaccompanied ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ernest Van der Eycken , "Het meezennestje " [ reciter and string quartet ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Omer Van Puyvelde (1912 - 1980), "Het mezennestje", 1953 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]

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• Also set in English, a translation by Christine D'Haen (1923 - 2009) , copyright © ; composed by Vic Nees.
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