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