No kaam de stille jûn en grize skimer

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by John Milton (1608 - 1674)

Translation © by Geart van der Meer

Now came still Evening on, and Twilight...

Language: English

Our translations: FRI GER

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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• C. Ives

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¹ Ives: "the beast"
² Ives: "is"

Text 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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No kaam de stille jûn en grize skimer

Language: Frisian after the English

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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a text in English by John Milton (1608 - 1674), no title, appears in Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 598-604
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This text was added to the website: 2013-04-23
Line count: 7
Word count: 54