Klaar bloed en louter wonden
daar hangs Du, aan den hout,
gestraft [voor]1 mijne zonden,
gegalgd om mijne schoud:
om Dij zoo wille ik leven;
om Dij zoo wille ik lijen,
die 't lijf mij hebs gegeven
en 't sterven niet ontzien!

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Spelling changes used by De Vocht in the piece for voice and piano: zoo -> zo
Spelling changes used by De Vocht in the piece for chorus: wille ik -> wil ik
Spelling changes by Watelet: hangs -> hangst; wille ik -> wil ik

¹ Mortelmans: "om" (first time)

Text Authorship:

• by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899), "Laatste XXXIII" [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 Lodewijk De Vocht (1887 - 1977), "Klaar bloed en louter wonden", 1906 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Lodewijk De Vocht (1887 - 1977), "Klaar Bloed" [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ivo Oscar Mortelmans (1901 - 1984), "Klaar Bloed en louter Wonden", 1932 [ eight-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Lodewijk Mortelmans (1868 - 1952), "Klaar bloed en louter wonder", 1938 [ mixed chorus a cappella ], from Vijf Koren, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Ernest Willem Mulder (1898 - 1959), "Klaar bloed" [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Bernard Smilde , "Klaar bloed en louter wonden", 1879 [ voice and piano ], also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel (1854 - 1912), "Klaar Bloed", op. 33 no. 2 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Anthon Van der Horst (1899 - 1965), "Klaar bloed en louter wonden" [ voice and piano or organ and violin ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Jef Van Hoof (1886 - 1959), "Klaar bloed en louter wonden", 1906 [ mixed chorus with organ ad libitum ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Renaat Veremans (1894 - 1969), "Klaar bloed en louter wonden" [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jos Watelet (1881 - 1951), "Klaar bloed" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Bernard Smilde ; composed by Bernard Smilde.
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