Saturday, January 5, 2013

Twelfth Night

I Peters Jul fra 1866 står der i afsnit 10 (helligtrekongersaften):
Se, nu er da Julen strax forbi;
det er Helligtrekongers Aften.
Saa ender den rare Jul; men vi
er glade, at vi har haft den.
Tre Lys har vi tændte — tænk en Gang!-
for Kongerne, de, som bragte
Jesusbarnet en Julepresent;
vi ved det, for Faer har sagt det.
Her sidder vi ved vort lille Bord
og ser, hvordan Lysene brænde;
naar de er slukkede, siger Moer,
at saa er Julen til Ende.
In Peter's Christmas from 1866 states in section 10 (Twelfth):


See, now when Christmas is at once past,
 it's Twelfth Night.
So ends the nice Jul;
but we are happy that we have had it.
Three Candles, we have lit - think once!
For kings, those who brought
the baby Jesus a Christmas Present;
we know it, the finished've said it.
Here we sit at our little table
and see how the candles burn,
when they are off, says Moer
that so is Christmas to the end.

4 comments:

  1. I had not read that before, although I've heard of twelfth night. Thanks for sharing it.

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  2. A good idea to have a blog for things other than gardening, I like some of the poems and I heard vaguely of the slaughter of those children and other people. That was a terrible thing.

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    1. I decided to do this to kind help organize some of the stuff I find that usually ends up in a file somewhere that gets forgotten.

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