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Hvarför är så flyktig våren, Hvarför dröjer sommarn icke? Så jag tänkte fordom ofta, Frågte, utan svar, af mången. Se'n den älskade mig svikit, Se'n till köld hans värme blifvit, All hans sommar blifvit vinter, Se'n har jag ej frågat mera, Känt blott djupt uti mitt sinne, Att det sköna är förgängligt, Att det ljufva icke dröjer.
Authorship:
- by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877), "Se'n har jag ej frågat mera", appears in Lyriska dikter II, in Ett litet öde, no. 10 [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 Harald Fryklöf (1882 - 1919), "Se'n har jag ej frågat mera" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), "Se'n har jag ej frågat mera", op. 17 (Seitsemän yksinlaulua pianon säestyksellä = Sju sånger (Seven songs)) no. 1 (1894), orchestrated 1903 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Since then I haven't asked anymore about that", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Sen jälkeen en enää ole kysynyt", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Pourquoi le printemps est-il si bref", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Seitdem frage ich nicht weiter", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Warum ist der Lenz so flüchtig, warum ist nicht länger Sommer? Dieses fragte ich mich öfter, fragte, antwortlos, so manchen. Seit der Liebste mich verraten, seine Wärme Eis geworden, sind die Sommer Winter worden, seitdem frage ich nicht weiter, fühlte nur tief im Gemüte, dass das Schöne nicht verweilet, und das Liebliche enteilet.
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- Translation from Swedish (Svenska) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2018 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877), "Se'n har jag ej frågat mera", appears in Lyriska dikter II, in Ett litet öde, no. 10
This text was added to the website: 2018-04-20
Line count: 11
Word count: 53