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På drivans snö där glimmar en diamant så klar. Ej fanns en tår, en pärla, som högre skimrat har. Utav en hemlig längtan hon blänker himmelskt så: hon blickar emot solen, där skön den ses uppgå. Vid foten av dess stråle tillbedjande hon står och kysser den i kärlek och smälter i en tår. O, sköna lott att älska det högsta livet ter, att stråla i dess solblick och dö, när skönst den ler!
Note: modern Swedish would spell the title "Diamanten på marssnön".
Text Authorship:
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), "Demanten på marssnön", op. 36 (Kuusi yksinlaulua pianon säestyksellä = 6 sånger (Six Songs)) no. 6 (1900), orchestrated 1900>> [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Anna Hersey) , "The diamond on the March snow", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Timantti maaliskuun hangella", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le diamant sur la neige de mars", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , "Der Diamant auf Märzenschnee", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 74
Hangen lumella kimaltelee niin kirkas timantti, ettei ole kyyneltä eikä helmeä, joka säihkyisi voimakkaammin. Salaisen kaipuunsa tähden se välkkyy niin taivaallisesti: Se suuntaa katseensa kohti aurinkoa, juuri kun se ihanana nousee. Sen säteen juurella hiutale seisoo rukoillen ja suutelee sädettä rakkaudella samalla kun itse sulaa kyyneleeksi. Onnellinen sen osa, joka rakastaa, suurinta, mitä elämä tarjoaa, on säteillä sen päivänpaisteessa ja kuolla, kun se hymyilee ihanimmillaan!
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- Translation from Swedish (Svenska) to Finnish (Suomi) copyright © 2010 by Erkki Pullinen, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Josef Julius Wecksell (1838 - 1907)
This text was added to the website: 2010-01-14
Line count: 16
Word count: 65