"Vadan, trötte främling?" - Han svarar icke.
"Vila! Njut en svalkande dryck!" - Han vandrar
tyst förbi och stirrar [alltjämt mot trolöst]1
   vinkande fjärran.

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Confirmed with Viktor Rydberg, Dikter, Atlantis, Stockholm, 1996, page 46.

¹ Pergament: "alltjamnt mot ett trolöst"

Text Authorship:

• by Viktor Rydberg (1828 - 1895), "Drömmaren" [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 Algot Haquinius (1886 - 1966), "Drömmaren", 1910 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Moses Pergament (1893 - 1977), "Drömmaren", 1917-1919 [ voice and piano ], from Evighetsträngtan : Tre sånger, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Rêves", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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