ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Classification" CONTENT="Sissel, music, singer, songs, Norway, Kyrkjebo"> <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Sissel Website with the best source of information about this Norwegian singer's work, including bio, photos, discography, articles, etc."> <META NAME="KeyWords" CONTENT="Sissel, sissel, sidsel, sissle, SISSEL, music, singer, kyrkjeb&#248;, sissel, folk music, kyrkjebo, sissel kyrkjebo, titanic, kyrkjeb¿, kyrkjebo, kyrkjeba, skoller, nobel concert, sort sol, all good things, one day, where the lost ones go, espen lind, weightless, norwegian, norway, should it matter, better off alone, elia rising, lyrics, the chieftains, eurosong contest, norway, norwegian, sissel, placido domingo, warren g, enya, james horner, Lillehammer, Ingrid, sissel, Norway music, sissel, norwegian music, scandinavia, danish, denmark, The Sissel Website, Eddie"> <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-165589-1"; urchinTracker(); </script> <TITLE>Sissel - The Sleeping Princess</TITLE> <!--Author: Robert A Jones 29. December 1997 --> </HEAD> <BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#0E625B" LINK="#660000" VLINK="#003366" ALINK="#FFFFFF"> <BLOCKQUOTE> <H1><font face="R Frutiger Roman,Helvetica" size="4" color="#D99C8C"> <font size="3" color="#D99C8C" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The Sleeping Princess <font color="#D99C8C" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <font color="#D99C8C" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <BR> </font> <font size="3" color="#D99C8C" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <font size="1" color="#D99C8C" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">(Alexandre Borodin)<BR> English translation: Henry G. Chapman <br> <br> Hush! Hush!<br> With lovely eyes<br> Closed in sleep, the princess lies,<br> By a fairy charm enchanted,<br> Doomed to dream in forests haunted:<br> Hush! Hush!<br> Pale and wan, as dead she were,<br> Sleeps the princess ever there.<br> Hush! Hush!<br> <br> Sudden on the silence breaking,<br> Laughing, shouting, merrymaking,<br> Thro the gloom the woodnymphs sweep,<br> Yet they do not break her sleep.<br> <br> Fast asleep the princess lies,<br> Wrapped in mystery her eyes,<br> By a fairy charm enchanted,<br> Doomed to dream in forests haunted!<br> Hush! Hush!<br> <br> Baleful charm and slumber fell:<br> Will she wake?<br> Ah, none can tell!<br> Hush! Hush!<br> <br><br> </font></font><font size="3" color="#D99C8C" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <font color="#D99C8C" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <font face="R Frutiger Roman,Helvetica" size="4" color="#D99C8C"><font size="3" color="#D99C8C" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <font size="1" color="#D99C8C" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <a href="%20http://www.sissel.cc" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.sissel.cc" target="_blank"><img src="Sisselbanner.gif" width="468" height="60" border="0"></a></a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <!-- BEGIN WEBSIDESTORY CODE V5. COPYRIGHT 1998-2000 WEBSIDESTORY, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. U.S. PATENT PENDING. --><!-- webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" startspan --></font></font></font></font></font></H1> <p align="center"><font size="1" color="#D99C8C" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://rd1.hitbox.com/rd?acct=WQ500710G7AB76EN0&p=s"><img src="http://hg1.hitbox.com/HG?hc=w155&l=y&hb=WQ500710G7AB76EN0&cd=1&n=VaarviseLyrics" height=62 width=88 alt="Click Here!" border=0></a></font></p> <font size="1" color="#D99C8C" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><!-- webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" endspan --><!-- END WEBSIDESTORY CODE --></font>