Palatsin vierellä

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by Viktor Rydberg (1828 - 1895)

Translation © by Erkki Pullinen

Vattenplask

Language: Swedish (Svenska)

Our translations: FIN FRE

Invid palatsen 
lagunens vatten
melodiskt skvalpar
i sommarnatten.

En solbrynt gosse
i sliten kappa
behagligt hvilar
på dogens trappa.

Och böljan hviskar
invid den lille
som något hemligt
hon säga ville:

"Se kungasonen! 
Se gudars like!
Men skall han ärfva
sitt kungarike?

Hur än vi vandra
kring världens länder,
vid hafvets kuster, 
vid floders stränder,

vi ana furstar,
där barn vi blicke, 
men vuxna kungar
vi finna icke."

Confirmed with Viktor Rydberg, Dikter, Atlantis, Stockholm, 1996, page 46.

Text Authorship:

by Viktor Rydberg (1828 - 1895), "Vattenplask" [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 Moses Pergament (1893 - 1977), "Vattenplask", 1916 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernest Pingoud (1887 - 1942), "Vattenplask", op. 11 (Fyra sånger) no. 2 (1922-3), published 1925 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), "Vattenplask", op. 61 (8 sånger (Eight Songs)) no. 2 (1910) [sung text checked 1 time]

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

FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Le clapotis de l'eau", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 68

Palatsin vierellä

Language: Finnish (Suomi) after the Swedish (Svenska)

Palatsin vierellä
laguunin vesi
liplattaa melodisesti
suviyössä.

Auringonpaahtama poika
kuluneessa takissa
lepäilee mukavasti
dogin portailla.

Ja aalto kuiskii
pienokaisen vierellä
ikäänkuin se tahtoisi kertoa
jonkin salaisuuden.

"Kas kuninkaanpoikaa!
On jumalten kaltainen!
Mutta mahtaako hän koskaan
periä kuningaskuntaansa?

Missä sitten vaellammekin
maailman eri maissa,
meren rannikoilla,
tai joen rannoilla,

vaistoamme näkevämme ruhtinaita
kun katselemme lapsia,
mutta aikuisia kuninkaita
emme löydä."

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a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Viktor Rydberg (1828 - 1895), "Vattenplask"
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This text was added to the website: 2010-01-10
Line count: 24
Word count: 59