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Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for [beast]1 and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence [was]2 pleased....
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Ives: "the beast"
2 Ives: "is"
Authorship:
- by John Milton (1608 - 1674), no title, appears in Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 598-604 [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 Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "Evening", 1921 [sung text checked 1 time]
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- FRI Frisian (Geart van der Meer) , copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 49
No kaam de stille jûn en grize skimer Klaaide yn syn sobere livrei de wrâld; Oeral wie 't stil, want elk beest, elke fûgel, Wie slûpt nei 't nêst yn 't gers of yn in beam, Útsein it gealtsje, jimmer wach -- dy song De hiele nacht har amoereuze sang, En hage sa de stilte...
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- Translation from English to Frisian copyright © 2013 by Geart van der Meer, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in English by John Milton (1608 - 1674), no title, appears in Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 598-604
This text was added to the website: 2013-04-23
Line count: 7
Word count: 54