Saa mangt kan synes lyst og let
ved Dagens muntre Skin;
men naar den store Sol er træt,
og verden bliver blind;
da vokser Sorg af Natens Dyb,
og gør det dobbelt sort,
da lister Angstens hvide Kryb
sig under hjertets Port.
Oh Sol! Oh Sol ! Hvad er din Pragt
mod Nattemørkets Magt.

Confirmed with Rode, Helge. Digte, Alb. Cammermeyers Forlag (Lars Swanstrøm), Kristiania og Kjøbenhavn, 1896.

Text Authorship:

• by Helge Rode (1870 - 1937), "Nat", appears in Digte, first published 1896 [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 Sigurd Lie (1871 - 1904), "Nat" [ low voice and piano ], from 8 Sange for dyb Stemme, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Nuit", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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