Metsän puu | Kasvoipa kerran metsässä puu

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by Edith Irene Södergran (1892 - 1923)

Translation © by Erkki Pullinen

Trädet i skogen

Language: Swedish (Svenska)

Our translations: FIN

Det växte en gång ett träd  i skogen,
så skönt och mäktigt jag hade sett det.
Det reste sig över djupens dimmor
till jordens tinnar i enslig glans.

Nu får jag höra att blixten nått det...
Vad kan man göra att åskor härja och blixtar slå?
Jag har ju sett detta träd i skogen
och skall det minnas så länge sångernas fästen stå.

Text Authorship:

by Edith Irene Södergran (1892 - 1923) [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 Erik Fritiof Fordell (1917 - 1981), "Trädet i skogen", op. 2 no. 2. [
text verified 1 time
]

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

FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , title 1: "Metsän puu", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2015-06-27
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Word count: 63

Metsän puu

Language: Finnish (Suomi) after the Swedish (Svenska)

Kasvoipa kerran metsässä puu,
niin kauniina ja mahtavana näin sen.
Se ulottui syvyyden usvista
maan huipuille asti ainutkertaisessa loistossa.

Nyt saan kuulla, että salama on iskenyt siihen…
Minkä sille voi, että ukkoset riehuvat ja salamat lyövät?
Olenhan minä nähnyt sen puun siellä metsässä
ja muistan sen niin kauan kuin laulut pysyvät.

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a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Edith Irene Södergran (1892 - 1923)
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This text was added to the website: 2015-06-27
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Word count: 51