Carl Nielsen

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CNW 299
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009) III/5, 235
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 235
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965. 83

Author: N.F.S. Grundtvig

Carl Nielsen Edition (Editorial Texts)

Composition: 1915.

The melody consists of material discarded from the collection Salmer og aandelige Sange (CNW Coll. 10). It was probably composed at the same time as Est du modfalden, kære Ven (CNW 300), since pencil sketches for both hymns appear on the same folio of manuscript paper.

Som Dug paa slagne Enge

As dew on grassy acre