Grenarna luta nära,
   nära
öfver oss ned sin snöbukett.
Vindarna vagga skära,
   skära 
hängen, som böja sig mjukt och lätt.
Häggen står brud [för]1 sommarens vind,
vinden smeker dess vita kind.

Drömmarna flyga ljusa, 
  ljusa,
sländorna svärma mot himlens blå.
Höga häggarna susa, 
  susa,
vaja och [hviska]2 och hvita stå. --
Rundt om mig sommar och du i min famn!
Lif, jag välsignar i jubel ditt namn!

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Note: modern spelling would change "hviska" to "viska", "Lif" to "Liv", etc.

¹ Melartin: "i"
² Melartin: "vagga"

Text Authorship:

• by Jarl Robert Hemmer (1893 - 1944), "Under häggarna" [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 Nils-Eric Fougstedt (1910 - 1961), "Under häggarna" [ chorus ], from Three Songs to texts by Jarl Hemmer, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Josef Jonsson (1887 - 1969), "Under häggarna", op. 26 (Tre sånger med piano) no. 1 (1924) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Erkki Gustaf Melartin (1875 - 1937), "Under häggarna", op. 86 (3 sange) no. 3 (1914), published 1916 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Tuomien alla", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Erkki Pullinen

This text was added to the website: 2015-04-12
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