Der Diamant auf Märzenschnee | Auf schneebedeckten Höhen

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by Josef Julius Wecksell (1838 - 1907)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Demanten på marssnön

Language: Swedish (Svenska)

Our translations: ENG FIN FRE GER

På drivans snö där glimmar
en diamant så klar.
Ej fanns en tår, en pärla,
som högre skimrat har.

Utav en hemlig längtan
hon blänker himmelskt så:
hon blickar emot solen,
där skön den ses uppgå.

Vid foten av dess stråle
tillbedjande hon står
och kysser den i kärlek
och smälter i en tår.

O, sköna lott att älska
det högsta livet ter,
att stråla i dess solblick
och dö, när skönst den ler!

Note: modern Swedish would spell the title "Diamanten på marssnön".

Text Authorship:

by Josef Julius Wecksell (1838 - 1907) [author's text not yet checked 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 Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), "Demanten på marssnön", op. 36 (Kuusi yksinlaulua pianon säestyksellä = 6 sånger (Six Songs)) no. 6 (1900), orchestrated 1900>> [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Anna Hersey) , "The diamond on the March snow", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Timantti maaliskuun hangella", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le diamant sur la neige de mars", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , "Der Diamant auf Märzenschnee", 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.
Line count: 16
Word count: 74

Der Diamant auf Märzenschnee

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Swedish (Svenska)

Auf schneebedeckten Höhen
erstrahlt ein Diamant
und keine Trän’ und Perle
glänzt heller hier im Land.

In heimlichem Verlangen
glitzert er himmlisch auf
und blickt der Sonn’ entgegen,
sobald beginnt ihr Lauf.

Am Fuße ihres Strahles
kniet er mit frommem Sinn
und küsst ihn voller Liebe
und schmilzt als Träne hin.

Welch Glück, Schönstes zu lieben,
was Leben bieten kann,
zu leuchten in der Sonne
und gehn, strahlt sie dich an.

Text Authorship:

Singable 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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a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Josef Julius Wecksell (1838 - 1907)
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This text was added to the website: 2018-10-15
Line count: 16
Word count: 71