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by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899)

Niet
Language: Dutch (Nederlands) 
Daar wandelde op een zomerdag
een neuswijze achter 't land,
daar hij twee kleene meiskes zag,
die speelden in het zand.
 
Zei Neuswijs: 'Maar, wat doet gij daar,
gij, meiskes alle bei?
Wat doet ge daar, gij blond van haar,
gij meiskes, [in de]1 Mei?'
 
En 't eene van de meiskes zei:
'Wel heere, zoo ge ziet,
wij zitten hier, wij zitten, bei!
wij zitten en ['n]2 doen niet.'
 
'Maar niet,' zoo zeide Neuswijs mij,
'dat is een ding, gewis,
dat is een dingen, dat ge gij
niet weet, wat dat het is.'
 
'Ik doe,' zei 't ander meiske boos,
- en 't wist wel wat ervan -
'niet is een kouse voeteloos
en zonder been deran.'

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   P. Vis 

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Spelling change used by Vis: meiskes -> meiskens

1 Vis: "van den"
2 omitted by Vis.

Text Authorship:

  • by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899), "Niet", written 1860? [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 Johan Boudry , "Niet", op. 16 [ women's chorus or men's chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by René De Clercq , "Niet" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Rachel Duquesne , "Niet" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Paul Schollaert (b. 1940), "Niet", 1978 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Pieter Vis , "Niet", 1978 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2012-08-23
Line count: 20
Word count: 117

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