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by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877)

Ej med klagan
 (Sung text for setting by A. Tegnér)
 See original
Language: Swedish (Svenska) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
 ... 

Högt i jämmer brast vid talet skaran,
Ingen fanns, som stod med tårlöst öga;
Men den ädla flickans tårar glänste,
Och hon tog den fallnes hand och sade:
"Ej med klagan skall ditt minne firas,
Ej likt dens, som går och snart skall glömmas;
Så skall fosterlandet dig begråta,
Som en afton gråter dagg om sommarn,
Full av glädje, ljus och lugn och sånger
Och med famnen sträckt mot morgonrodnan".

Note: the poem is preceded by an epigraph:

Mer än leva, fann jag, var att älska, 
Mer än älska är att dö som denne.

Composition:

    Set to music by Alice Tegnér (1864 - 1943), "Ej med klagan", stanza 19 [ SATB chorus a cappella ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877), "Molnets broder", appears in Fänrik Ståls sägner, in 1. Första samlingen, no. 3, excerpt, first published 1848

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

  • ENG English (Anna Hersey) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [an adaptation]
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [an adaptation]


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 336
Word count: 2262

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