Niin valuvat päivät loppuaan kohti

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by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946)

Translation © by Erkki Pullinen

So gehen die Tage zu Ende

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FIN

So gehen die Tage zu Ende 
ohne Klang und Sang.
Ein Hauch von vergilbenden Rosen 
weht müde den Weg entlang.

Lautlos [gleiten]¹ die Blätter 
von fröstelnden Bäumen herab 
dichter und immer dichter 
auf des Sommers Grab.

Im [Mondlicht]² stehen die Zweige 
starr wie in Zaubers Bann.
Aus blassen leeren Augen
sieht die Nacht dich an.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• Y. Kilpinen • C. Sinding

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Confirmed with Sehnen und Suchen, Vierte Auflage, Rostock: C.J.E. Volckmann (Volckman & Wetter), 1905, page 140.

¹ Sinding: "fallen"
² Kilpinen, Sinding: "Mondschein"

Text Authorship:

by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "So gehen die Tage zu Ende . .", appears in Sehnen und Suchen: Gedichte, in Einkehr und Wende, in Einsame Wege [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 Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "So gehen die Tage zu Ende ", op. 76 no. 1 (1932-1933?) [ voice and piano ], from Lauluja Albert Sergelin runoihin, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Christian Sinding (1856 - 1941), "So gehen die Tage", op. 77 (Sieben Gedichte) no. 7, published 1906 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, C. F. Peters [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2011-04-15
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Word count: 57

Niin valuvat päivät loppuaan kohti

Language: Finnish (Suomi) after the German (Deutsch)

Niin valuvat päivät loppuaan kohti
hiljaa ja huomaamatta.
Häivähdys lakastuvien ruusujen tuoksua
leijuu väsyneenä tietä pitkin.

Äänettömästi liitävät lehdet
alas palelevista puista
yhä paksummaksi peitteeksi
kesän haudalle.

Kuun valossa oksat törröttävät jäykkinä
kuin taikavoiman lumoissa.
Kalpeilla tyhjillä silmillään
tuijottaa yö sinua.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "So gehen die Tage zu Ende . .", appears in Sehnen und Suchen: Gedichte, in Einkehr und Wende, in Einsame Wege
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This text was added to the website: 2019-10-23
Line count: 12
Word count: 41