Cast away all your cares of sadness | Cast away all your cares of sadness

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by Alpo Noponen (1862 - 1927)

Translation © by Alexandra Glynn

Arkihuolesi kaikki heitä

Language: Finnish (Suomi)

Our translations: ENG

Arkihuolesi kaikki heitä,
mieles nuorena nousta suo!
Armas joulu jo kutsuu meitä
taasen muistojen suurten luo.
Kylmä voisko nyt olla kellä,
talven säästä kun tuoksahtaa
lämmin leuto ja henkäys hellä,
rinnan jäitä mi liuottaa?

Syttyi siunattu joulutähti
yöhön maailman raskaaseen,
hohde määrätön siitä lähti,
viel' on auvona ihmisten;
kun se loistavi lasten teille,
päilyy järvet ja kukkii haat,
kuusen kirkkahan luona heille
siintää onnelan kaukomaat.

Text Authorship:

by Alpo Noponen (1862 - 1927), "Arkihuolesi kaikki heitä" [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 Leevi Antti Madetoja (1887 - 1947), "Arkihuolesi kaikki heitä", op. 20b (Nuorison lauluja) no. 5 (1913?) [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Alexandra Glynn) , "Cast away all your cares of sadness", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Erik Pedersen

This text was added to the website: 2009-08-26
Line count: 16
Word count: 65

Cast away all your cares of sadness

Language: English after the Finnish (Suomi)

Cast away all your cares of sadness,  
Raise your mind from daily care.  
Christmas calls to you with gladness,  
Mem’ries jubilant flood the air.  
Who can stay in a cold seclusion    
Hearing songs mid the smell of pines?  
Knowing joy in bright profusion    
How a heart into warmth inclines.    
 
O’er the suffering world of labor   
Breaks a wondrous star of light.   
Rays reach out to touch our neighbor, 
Filling spirits with grace delight.     
Hear the voices of children smiling,    
Fields in wintertime seem to bloom—   
The remotest heart beguiling,     
Chasing sorrow, dispelling gloom!

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in Finnish (Suomi) by Alpo Noponen (1862 - 1927), "Arkihuolesi kaikki heitä"
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This text was added to the website: 2017-03-22
Line count: 16
Word count: 93