Hämärän hetki | Hämärä soittaa pehmein käsin

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by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946)

Translation © by Erkki Pullinen

Dämmerstunde

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FIN

Die Dämmerung spielt mit weicher Hand
die Harfe der Erinnerungen,
und alte Lieder werden wach,
die lange, lange schon verklungen.

Im blonden Haar tritt vor dich hin
ein Jugendglück, das du besessen . . 
Du breitest deine Arme aus
und weinst und kannst es nicht vergessen.

Confirmed with Sehnen und Suchen, Vierte Auflage, Rostock: C.J.E. Volckmann (Volckman & Wetter), 1905, page 138.

Text Authorship:

by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "Dämmerstunde", appears in Sehnen und Suchen: Gedichte, in Einkehr und Wende, in Einsame Wege [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 Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "Dämmerstunde", op. 76 no. 6 (1932-1933?) [ voice and piano ], from Lauluja Albert Sergelin runoihin, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Twilight hour", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Hämärän hetki", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2019-10-23
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Word count: 46

Hämärän hetki

Language: Finnish (Suomi) after the German (Deutsch)

Hämärä soittaa pehmein käsin
muistojen harppua,
ja taas heräävät vanhat laulut,
jotka jo kauan sitten haihtuivat kuulumattomiin.

Vaaleatukkaisena astuu eteesi
nuoruutesi onni, jonka kerran omistit.
Sinä levität kätesi syleilyyn
ja itket etkä voi sitä unohtaa...

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "Dämmerstunde", appears in Sehnen und Suchen: Gedichte, in Einkehr und Wende, in Einsame Wege
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This text was added to the website: 2019-10-23
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Word count: 35