Ombre du futur | Je pressens l'ombre de la mort

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by Edith Irene Södergran (1892 - 1923)

Translation © by Pierre Mathé

Framtidens skugga

Language: Swedish (Svenska)

Our translations: FRE

Jag anar dödens skugga.
Jag vet att våra öden ligger i hopar på nornornas bord.
Jag vet att icke en droppe regn sig suger i jorden
som icke är skriven i de eviga tidernas bok.
Jag vet så visst, som att solen går opp,
att jag aldrig skall skåda det andlösa ögonblick, då hon står i zenit.

Framtiden kastar på mig sin saliga skugga;
den är ingenting annat än flödande sol:
genomborrad av ljus skall jag dö,
då jag trampat all slump med min fot, skall jag leende vända mig bort ifrån livet.

Text Authorship:

by Edith Irene Södergran (1892 - 1923), "Framtidens skugga", appears in Framtidens skugga, in Framtidens skugga, first published 1920 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Cecilia Damström (b. 1988), "Framtidens skugga", op. 70 no. 1 (2019-2020) [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Framtidens skugga, no. 1, Gehrmans Musikförlag [sung text not yet checked]
by Mikko Heiniö (b. 1948), "Framtidens skugga", op. 38 no. 3 (1980), first performed 1981 [ soprano, four trumpets, four trombones, and tuba ], from Framtidens skugga (The Shadow of the Future), no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]

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

FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Ombre du futur", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2009-12-01
Line count: 10
Word count: 93

Ombre du futur

Language: French (Français) after the Swedish (Svenska)

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Je pressens l'ombre de la mort.
Je sais que notre destin est en tas sur la table des nornes.
Je sais que pas une goutte de pluie n'étanche la soif de la terre,
que rien n'est écrit dans le livre des temps éternels.
Je suis aussi sûre que le soleil se lève,
que je ne verrai jamais l'instant suffocant où il s'arrête au zénith.

Le futur jette sur moi son ombre bienheureuse ;
ce n'est rien d'autre qu'un soleil débordant :
je vais mourir transpercée par la lumière,
alors marchant au hasard, je me détournerai de la vie en souriant.

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a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Edith Irene Södergran (1892 - 1923), "Framtidens skugga", appears in Framtidens skugga, in Framtidens skugga, first published 1920
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This text was added to the website: 2013-12-03
Line count: 10
Word count: 98