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Store Skapare, förlåt det,
Se ej, gode Gud, med vrede,
Att så ofta i ditt tempel
Jag på honom äfven tänker!
Hundra vägar har min tanke,
Tusen att till honom hinna.
Blott det sämsta leder bortåt,
Allt det bättre för till honom.
Kort från dagens ljus är vägen,
Gen från nattens stjärneskara,
Hvarje blomma stakar stigen,
Hvarje träd är vägamärke.
Men när dig min tanke hunnit,
Är den nästan ren hos honom.

Translation(s): FIN GER

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Authorship

• by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877), "Hundra vägar har min tanke", appears in Lyriska dikter II, in Ett litet öde, no. 6 [ 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 Ture Rangström (1884 - 1947), "Hundra vägar har min tanke", 1917, published 1918 [voice and piano], from Idyll, no. 6, also set in German (Deutsch) [ sung text checked 1 time]
• by Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), "Hundravägar", op. 72 (6 sånger (Six songs)) no. 6 (1907). [ sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Ture Rangström (1884 - 1947) , "Hundert Weg' zieht mein Gedanke" FIN by Ture Rangström.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Ajatuksellani on sata tietä", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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

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