Paa Stranden skælver ej det mindste Blad;
Her ruller Søen sølvblank ud sit Bad,
Og Solnedgangen lejrer sig derover.
I Himlen smeltes ind de bløde Vover,
Du skuer mod uendelige Sletter
Af Barndomsminder uden mørke Pletter,
Vemodig glad: -
De lyse- Nætter, ak de lyse Nætter!

Confirmed with Drachmann, Holger, Samlede Petiske Skrifter - Folkeudgave - Fjerde bind, Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag, Kjøbenhavn og Kristiania, 1907.

Composition:

Set to music by Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl (1847 - 1907), "Lyse Nætter", op. 17 no. 5, published 1887 [ voice and piano ], from Sange ved Havet, no. 5

Text Authorship:

• by Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann (1846 - 1908), "Lyse Nætter", appears in Ungdom i Digt og Sang, in Nye Sange ved Havet

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

• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Nuits claires", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , "Weiße Nächte", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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