Happy day | How has the day made me so happy?

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by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Froher Tag

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FIN

Was mich den Tag so froh gemacht?
   Ich will dir’s leise sagen:

Du kamst im Traume diese Nacht,
du reichtest lächelnd mir die Hand
und "Liebster" hast du mich genannt . . .

Nun muß ich diesen ganzen Tag
in Alltagshast und Werkelplag 
den süßen Laut im Ohre tragen . . .

Confirmed with Sehnen und Suchen, Vierte Auflage, Rostock: C.J.E. Volckmann (Volckman & Wetter), 1905, page 9.

Text Authorship:

by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "Froher Tag", appears in Sehnen und Suchen: Gedichte, in Im Lande der Liebe, in Antoinette [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), "Froher Tag", op. 76 no. 7 (1932-1933?) [ voice and piano ], from Lauluja Albert Sergelin runoihin, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Richard Trunk (1879 - 1968), "Froher Tag", op. 26 (Drei Lieder auf Gedichte von Albert Sergel) no. 3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Happy day", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Iloinen päivä", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2019-10-23
Line count: 8
Word count: 52

Happy day

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

How has the day made me so happy?
   I shall tell you quietly:

You came to me in my dreams last night,
smiling, you stretched out your hand to me
and called me "Beloved" . . .

Now, for this whole day,
in the everyday bustle and the bother of work,
I must carry the sweet sound in my ear . . .

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "Froher Tag", appears in Sehnen und Suchen: Gedichte, in Im Lande der Liebe, in Antoinette
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This text was added to the website: 2024-01-10
Line count: 8
Word count: 63