Soluppgång

Under himlens purpurbrand
Ligga tysta sjö och land,
Det är gryningsstunden.
Snöig gren och frostvit kvist
Tecka sig så segervisst
Mot den röda grunden.

Riddarn står vid fönsterkarm,
Lyssnar efter stridens larm,
Trampar golvets tilja.
Men en smal och snövit hand
Kyler milt hans pannas brand,
Böjer mjukt hans vilja.tenderly 

Riddarn sätter horn till mun,
Blåser vilt I gryningsstund,
Över nejd som tiger.
Tonen klingar, klar och spröd,
Branden slocknar, gyllenröd,
Solen sakta stiger.

Translation(s): ENG FIN FRE GER

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Submitted by Ted Perry

Authorship

• by Tor Hedberg (1862 - 1931) [ author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), "Soluppgång", op. 37 no. 3 (1902), published 1906, orchestrated 1914 [voice and piano], from Fem sånger, no. 3. [ sung text verified 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (David McCleery) , "Sunrise", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Auringonnousu", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Lever de soleil", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Sonnenaufgang", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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Sonnenaufgang

Unter des Himmels purpurnem Brand
liegen stille Meer und Land
in der Morgenstund.
Verschneiter Ast, bereifter Zweig
zeichnen ab sich siegesreich 
gegen roten Hintergrund. 

Zum Ritter, der am Fenster steht,
Schlachtenlärm herüber weht;
auf und ab er schreitet.
Doch eine kleine, schneeweiße Hand
- sanft kühlt sie seiner Stirne Brand -
ihn zart zum Bleiben verleitet.

Der Ritter führt sein Horn zum Mund
bläst wild hinaus in die Morgenstund
über das Land, das schweigt.
Hell klingt’s hinaus und spröde;
und es erlischt der Brand der Morgenröte
allmählich, als die Sonne steigt.

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• a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Tor Hedberg (1862 - 1931) ENG FIN FRE
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Jean Sibelius. Go to the text.

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