The duteous day now closeth
The duteous day now closeth. Paul Gerhardt* (1607-1676) translated by Robert Bridges* (1844-1930).
From the Yattendon Hymnal*, Part IV (1899). It is a translation and shortening of Gerhardt’s nine-stanza hymn ‘Nun ruhen alle Wälder’*, which had been translated in its entirety by Catherine Winkworth* in Lyra Germanica I (Second Edition, 1856) as ‘Now all the woods are sleeping’* (this version was used in MHB, 1933). Bridges used Gerhardt’s stanzas 1 and 3 freely for his first two stanzas, and then added two stanzas of his own, in characteristically complex language and syntax (Bridges did not believe in making hymns easy or popular). The inversions and archaic language are uncompromising,...
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