James Zehm wrote:

>Janos, thank you for Your report, but in the title of Your post, You
>associates with "Quietly flows the river Don".  Where does that come into
>the story? Or is it just no connection?

Long before Mikhail Sholokhov wrote *Quiet Flows the Don", Heine, in his
"Lorelei" wrote

   "Die Luft ist kuehl, und es dunkelt,
    Und ruhig fliesst der Rhein...."

For my favorite translation of that poem, see

    http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/h/heine/lorelei.html

wm