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by Viktor Rydberg (1828 - 1895)

Translation © by Pierre Mathé

Vattenplask

Language: Swedish (Svenska)

Our translations: FIN FRE

Invid palatsen 
lagunens vatten
melodiskt skvalpar
i sommarnatten.

En solbrynt gosse
i sliten kappa
behagligt hvilar
på dogens trappa.

Och böljan hviskar
invid den lille
som något hemligt
hon säga ville:

"Se kungasonen! 
Se gudars like!
Men skall han ärfva
sitt kungarike?

Hur än vi vandra
kring världens länder,
vid hafvets kuster, 
vid floders stränder,

vi ana furstar,
där barn vi blicke, 
men vuxna kungar
vi finna icke."

Confirmed with Viktor Rydberg, Dikter, Atlantis, Stockholm, 1996, page 46.

Text Authorship:

by Viktor Rydberg (1828 - 1895), "Vattenplask" [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 Moses Pergament (1893 - 1977), "Vattenplask", 1916 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernest Pingoud (1887 - 1942), "Vattenplask", op. 11 (Fyra sånger) no. 2 (1922-3), published 1925 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), "Vattenplask", op. 61 (8 sånger (Eight Songs)) no. 2 (1910) [sung text checked 1 time]

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

FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Le clapotis de l'eau", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Le clapotis de l'eau

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

Auprès du palais
l'eau de la lagune
clapote mélodieusement
dans la nuit d'été.

Un garçon basané
dans un manteau élimé
se délasse gracieusement
sur les marches du doge.

Et les vagues murmurent
à côté du petit
comme pour lui dire
quelque secret :

« Vois le fils du roi !
Il est l'égal des dieux !
Mais héritera-t-il
de son royaume ?

Où que nous allions,
pays du monde,
rivages des mers,
berges des rivières,

nous pressentons des princes,
là où nous voyons des enfants,
mais ceux devenus rois,
nous n'en trouvons pas.

Text Authorship:

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a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Viktor Rydberg (1828 - 1895), "Vattenplask"
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This text was added to the website: 2015-02-05
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Word count: 89