On the balcony by the sea | Do you remember the sigh of the shimmering waves, how they came to an end

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by Viktor Rydberg (1828 - 1895)

Translation © by David McCleery

På verandan vid hafvet

Language: Swedish (Svenska)

Our translations: ENG FIN FRE

Minns du de skimrande böljornas suck, att vid målet de hunnit 
endast en jordisk kust, icke det evigas strand?
Minns du ett vemodsken från himlens ovanskliga stjärnor?
Ack, åt förgängelsens lott skatta de äfven till slut.
Minns du en tystnad, då allt var som sänkt i oändlighetsträngtan, 
stränder och himmel och hav, allt som i aning om Gud?

Confirmed with Viktor Rydberg, Dikter, Atlantis, Stockholm, 1996, page 135.

Text Authorship:

by Viktor Rydberg (1828 - 1895), "På verandan vid hafvet", appears in Dikter, first published 1914 [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), "På verandan vid hafvet", op. 38 (Viisi yksinlaulua pianon säestyksellä = 5 sånger (Five Songs)) no. 2 (1903), orchestrated 1903>> [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (David McCleery) , "On the balcony by the sea", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Verannalla meren rannalla", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Dans une véranda au bord de la mer", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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On the balcony by the sea

Language: English after the Swedish (Svenska)

Do you remember the sigh of the shimmering waves, how they came to an end
At a terrestrial coast, and not at the beach of eternity?
Do you remember the melancholic light shining from heaven’s immortal stars?
Alas, their final destiny was to burn out and die.
Do you remember a silence, where everything sank into infinite yearning,
Sand, sea and sky, and everything created by God?

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Based on:

a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Viktor Rydberg (1828 - 1895), "På verandan vid hafvet", appears in Dikter, first published 1914
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This text was added to the website: 2018-02-26
Line count: 6
Word count: 67