Leaning on the fence | Leaning on the fence stood

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by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877)

Translation © by Anna Hersey

Lutad mot gärdet

Language: Swedish (Svenska)

Our translations: ENG ENG FRE GER

Lutad mot gärdet stod
Gossen vid flickans arm,
Såg öfver slagen äng:
"Sommarens tid har flytt,
Blommorna vissnat re'n;
Skön är din kind likväl,
Rosor och liljor der
Blomstra, som förr, ännu."
Våren kom åter, då
Stod han allena der!
Flickan var borta -- låg
Vissnad i jordens famn;
Ängen var grön igen,
Leende, blomsterrik.

Text Authorship:

by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877), appears in Lyriska dikter II, in Idyll och epigram, no. 13, first published 1830 [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 Knut Håkanson (1887 - 1929), "Lutad mot gärdet", c1915 [ voice and piano ], from Fem sånger, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Wilhelm (Vilhelm) Eugen Stenhammar (1871 - 1927), "Lutad mot gärdet", op. 8 no. 1 (1895) [ voice and piano ], from Fem visor ur "Idyll och epigramm" (J. L. Runeberg), no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Marc Moreau) , "Leaning against the fence", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Anna Hersey) , "Leaning on the fence", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Marc Moreau) , "Appuyé contre la barrière", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Gelehnt ans Gatter", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Marc Moreau

This text was added to the website: 2005-04-19
Line count: 14
Word count: 54

Leaning on the fence

Language: English after the Swedish (Svenska)

Leaning on the fence stood
the lad on the girl's arm,
looked over the harvested meadow:
"Summertime is over,
the flowers have already withered;
your cheeks are still beautiful,
roses and lilies
still bloom there, as before."
The spring returned,
he still stood there!
The girl was gone -- she lay
dead in the earth's arms;
the meadow was green again,
smiling, rich with flowers.

Text Authorship:

Translation from Swedish (Svenska) to English copyright © 2011 by Anna Hersey, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., please ask the copyright-holder(s) directly.
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Based on:

a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877), appears in Lyriska dikter II, in Idyll och epigram, no. 13, first published 1830
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This text was added to the website: 2011-08-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 64