The mill-wheel (Josephson, set by (Jean Sibelius)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Ernst Josephson (1851 - 1906)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Kvarnhjulet

Language: Swedish (Svenska)

Available translation(s): ENG FIN FRE

Dränkt i tjära qvarnhjulet går
Dufvorna leka i skummet.
Gamla hjulet som stilla står
Har fått lemna rummet.

Öfvervuxet med vildros, nött,
Urblekt af vind och af väder,
Tänket det: "Nu är jag trött
Gladde edra fäder."

Authorship

by Ernst Josephson (1851 - 1906) [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), "Kvarnhjulet", op. 57 (8 sånger (Eight Songs)) no. 3 (1909) [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "The mill-wheel", copyright © 2019
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Myllynratas", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2014, (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: 8
Word count: 37

The mill‑wheel

Language: English after the Swedish (Svenska)

Covered with tar, the mill wheel turns.
Pigeons are playing in its spray.
The old wheel, which stands motionless,
Has had to give way.

Overgrown with wild roses, worn,
Faded by wind and weather,
It thinks, "I'm tired now,
[But] in the past, I brought joy to your fathers."

Authorship

Translation from Swedish (Svenska) to English copyright © 2019 by Emily Ezust
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Based on

a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Ernst Josephson (1851 - 1906)

This text was added to the website: 2019-07-22
Line count: 8
Word count: 49