Du, min stille Lotusblomst, fra Skovsøens Rand,
Du Svane, som på Bølgen Dig vugger,
Siig, synker du om Natten til Drømmenes Land?
Er det derfor, at Din Krone du lukker?

Er det derfor, Du sænker Dig i Skovdybets Væld,
Når Aftenstjernen over Dig blinker?
Ak, [åben]1 mig Dit Bæger [blot en eneste]2 Kvæld,
Det er Mere end [Drømmen]3, som Dig vinker.

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¹ Backer-Grøndahl: "åb for"
² Backer-Grøndahl: "bloten"
³ Backer-Grøndahl: "Drømme"

Text Authorship:

• by Vilhelm Bergsøe (1835 - 1911), "Aakande", appears in Blomstervignetter [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 Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl (1847 - 1907), "Aakande", op. 23 no. 4 (1888?) [ voice and piano ], from Blomstervignetter, no. 4, Kristiania [Oslo] : Norsk Musikforlag [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller (1850 - 1926), "Åkande", op. 4 (Tre Digte af Vilhelm Bergsoe) no. 1 (1875), published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, W. Hansen, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]

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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller.
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