Kinship | How many waves live on the sound

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by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877)

Translation © by Laura Prichard

Likhet

Language: Swedish (Svenska)

Our translations: ENG FIN FRE

Hur många vågor bo på fjärden,
Hur många tankar i mitt hjärta?
De tyckas fly -- och dröja kvar dock,
De tyckas dö -- och födas åter,
Så skilda och ändå så lika,
Så många och ändå de samma! --
Ur samma sjö, av samma vindar
De höjas alla,
Ur samma bröst de höjas alla,
Av samma kärlek.
Ur samma bröst höjes våg,
Våg på fjärd.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• J. Sibelius

J. Sibelius sets lines 1-10 in (at least) one setting - see below for more information

Text Authorship:

by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877) [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 Karl Collan (1828 - 1871), "Likhet", 1865 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), "Likhet", 1922 [ men's chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), "Likhet", 1890, lines 1-10 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Kinship", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Samanlaisuus", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Ressemblance", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 63

Kinship

Language: English after the Swedish (Svenska)

How many waves live on the sound,
How many thoughts are in my heart?
They seem to fly away — but also remain stuck there,
They seem to die — and are born again,
So different and yet so alike,
So many and yet all the same! —

From the same lake, of the same winds
They are all raised,
From the same breast they are all raised
Of the same love.
From the same breast the wave is raised,
The wave on the sound.

Translator's note for lines 1 and -1: a sound is an open body of water in an archipelago, a bay between islands

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This text was added to the website: 2018-12-16
Line count: 12
Word count: 85