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Tröttad lade jag mig ned på bädden, Att i sömnen glömma sorg och saknad, Men en dröm sig smög till hufvudgärden1, Hviskande uti mitt öra detta: "Vakna, hon är här, den sköna flickan, Blicka upp, att hennes kyss emotta!" Och jag slår med glädje upp mitt öga. Hvar är drömmen? Som en rök försvunnen. Hvar är flickan? Bortom land och sjöar. Hvar är kyssen? Ack, blott i min längtan.
1 modern spelling: "huvudgården"
Text Authorship:
- by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877), "Drömmen" [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 Selim Palmgren (1878 - 1951), "Drömmen", 1898 [ men's chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Moses Pergament (1893 - 1977), "Drömmen", 1915 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), "Drömmen", op. 13 (Seitsemän yksinlaulua pianon säestyksellä Runebergin teksteihin = 7 sånger (Seven songs)) no. 5 (1891), first performed 1892 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Stanfield Prichard) , "The dream", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Uni", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Un rêve", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Der Traum", copyright © 2020, (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: 10
Word count: 71
Väsyneenä kävin levolle vuoteeseeni unohtaakseni unessa suruni ja kaipaukseni; mutta eräs tietty uni hiipi tyynylleni ja kuiskasi korvaani näin: "Herää, hän on täällä, se tyttö-kulta; katso ylös, ja ota vastaan hänen suudelmansa!" Ja täynnä iloa avaan silmäni: Missä se uni on? Haihtui ilmaan kuin savu. Missä se tyttö on? Poissa maiden ja merten takana. Missä se suukko on? Voi, vain minun haaveissani.
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- Translation from Swedish (Svenska) to Finnish (Suomi) copyright © 2010 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 Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877), "Drömmen"
This text was added to the website: 2010-01-10
Line count: 10
Word count: 62