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Det mörknar ute och vindens sus far över de dunkla dalar; Natt faller över den armes hus och rikemans stolta salar. Var är det ljus, var är det ljus som oss hugsvalar? De eviga stjärnor stråla klart i däldernas dunkel neder. Av festliga ljus ett underbart, ett länsande sken sig breder. Kom snart Guds ljus, kom snart Guds ljus, som allen oss lyser. Allt mörker ljusnar för Herren Krist som kom för att världen lysa. Guds helga änglar med oljekvist omskygga dem som frysa. I kväll skall visst, i kväll skall vår hydda änglarna hysa.
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Text Authorship:
- by Zachris Topelius (1818 - 1898) [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), "Julvisa", 1868 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), "Det mörknar ute", op. 1 no. 3 (1897) [ voice and piano ], from 5 julsånger, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (David McCleery) , "It’s getting dark outside", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Ulkona hämärtää", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-11-04
Line count: 18
Word count: 95
Ulkona hämärtää ja tuulen humina liikkuu pimeiden laaksojen yllä. Yö lankeaa köyhän tuvan ja rikkaan miehen komeiden salien ylle. Missä on se valo, joka voisi lohduttaa meitä? Ikuiset tähdet säteilevät kirkkaasti alas laaksojen pimeyteen. Juhlallinen valo levittää ihmeellistä, kimaltavaa hohdettaan. Tule pian, Jumalan valo, joka loistat meille kaikille! Kaikki pimeys haihtuu kun Herramme Kristus tuli tuomaan valoa maailmaan. Jumalan pyhät enkelit öljypuunoksineen sulkevat suojaansa ne jotka palelevat. Tänä iltana saa majamme varmaankin pitää vieraanaan enkeleitä.
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- Translation from Swedish (Svenska) to Finnish (Suomi) copyright © 2009 by Erkki Pullinen, (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 Zachris Topelius (1818 - 1898)
This text was added to the website: 2009-11-04
Line count: 18
Word count: 75