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by Karl August Tavaststjerna (1860 - 1898)

Translation © by Pierre Mathé

I skäraste morgongryning

Language: Swedish (Svenska)

Our translations: FRE

I skäraste morgongryning,
när dimmorna gå i rött,
har jag på en purpurdyning
vårdrömmarnas drottning mött.

Jag såg henne långsamt gunga
mot strandens förvuxna snår,
och sorgset skaka sitt tunga
och glänsande långa hår.

När talltrasten stämde i lunden
yrvaken sin första drill,
när vågorna väcktes i sunden,
då var hon ej längre till.

Det sägs om en dödlig, som möter
den översinnliga så,
att han uti livet stöter
på faror, hvart än han må gå.

Han bär dock inom sig sin fara,
den blir han ej nå'nsin fri,
den farliga bilderskara,
som kallas för fantasi.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• E. Melartin

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Confirmed with För morgonbris, dikter af K. Aug. Tavaststjerna, Helsingfors P. H. Beijer, 1883, Helsingfors Finska Litteratur-Sällskapets tryckeri 1883, page 132.

Text Authorship:

by Karl August Tavaststjerna (1860 - 1898), no title, appears in För morgonbris, first published 1883 [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 Erkki Gustaf Melartin (1875 - 1937), "I skäraste morgongryning", op. 21 no. 2 (1895) [voice and piano], from Nya sånger = New songs, no. 2. [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Dans l'aube la plus pure", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Pierre Mathé [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2009-12-17
Line count: 20
Word count: 102

Dans l'aube la plus pure

Language: French (Français) after the Swedish (Svenska)

Dans l'aube la plus pure,
lorsque les nuages virent au rouge,
j'ai sur la houle pourpre,
rencontré la reine des songes du printemps.

Je la vis se balancer lentement,
sur le rivage envahi de broussailles,
et tristement secouer son épaisse,
longue et brillante chevelure.

Lorsque la grive entonna dans le bois
mal réveillé ses premières trilles,
lorsque les vagues s'éveillèrent dans le détroit,
elle ne se trouvait déjà plus là.

On dit d'un mortel qui rencontre
ainsi le surnaturel,
que dans la vie il se heurtera
à des dangers où qu'il aille.

Il porte toutefois en lui un danger,
dont il ne sera jamais libéré,
la multitude de dangereuses images
que l'on appelle rêverie.

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a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Karl August Tavaststjerna (1860 - 1898), no title, appears in För morgonbris, first published 1883
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This text was added to the website: 2014-12-04
Line count: 20
Word count: 114