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by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Våren flyktar hastigt

Language: Swedish (Svenska)

Our translations: FIN FRE GER

Våren flyktar hastigt, 
Hastigare sommarn,
Hösten dröjer länge,
Vintern ännu längre.
Snart I sköna kinder,
Skolen i förvissna
Och ej knoppas mera.
Gossen svarte åter:

Än i höstens dagar 
Gläda vårens minnen,
Än i vinterns dagar 
Räcka sommarns skördar. 
Fritt må våren flykta,
Fritt må kinden vissna,
Låt oss nu blott äska,
Låt oss nu blott kyssas.

Text Authorship:

by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877), appears in Lyriska dikter II, in Idyll och epigram, no. 12, first published 1830 [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 Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), "Våren flyktar hastigt", op. 13 (Seitsemän yksinlaulua pianon säestyksellä Runebergin teksteihin = 7 sånger (Seven songs)) no. 4 (1890), orchestrated 1914 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Kevät pakenee nopeasti", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Våren flyktar hastigt", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Rasch sucht Lenz das Weite", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 57

Rasch sucht Lenz das Weite

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Swedish (Svenska)

„Rasch sucht Lenz das Weite,
rascher noch der Sommer,
Herbst verweilt schon lange,
Winter noch viel länger.
Bald, ihr schönen Wangen
müsst auch ihr verwelken,
werdet nicht mehr knospen.“

Der Junge gab zur Antwort:

„Selbst an Herbstestagen
stimmt der Lenz uns heiter,
und an Wintertagen
reicht des Sommers Ernte.
Lass’ den Lenz entfliehen,
lass’ die Wang’ verblühen, 
lasst uns heute kosen,
lasst uns heute küssen.

Text Authorship:

Translation from Swedish (Svenska) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:

a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877), appears in Lyriska dikter II, in Idyll och epigram, no. 12, first published 1830
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This text was added to the website: 2015-10-12
Line count: 16
Word count: 65