On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Nande . wrote:
> Hi Monica
>
> Thanks! I'll have fun with it!
>
> By the way, I did a little research on the dutch version, and it is really
> just the first verse! Strange, You'd think that when one verse was
> translated; all of them are! But, apparently not.
>
> I remember Karen saying the song gets very christian/religious after the
> first verse.... Maybe the english text is different, but this one is just
> about the tree! (pagan worship... :-))
Yes, it does get religious in the English text, which isn't a direct
translation (obviously), and which has four verses. Don't know if people
still want to see this text now that they've got the original German....
Karen Mercedes http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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Hillaire Belloc's flawed but insightful essay on Islam:
http://www.ewtn.com/library/HOMELIBR/HERESY4.TXT
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsyl., 1759
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