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Kom nu hit, kom nu hit, död! I krusflor förvara mig väl; Hasta bort, hasta bort, nöd! Skön jungfrun har tagit min själ. Med svepning och buxbom på kistans lock Håll dig färdig; Mång trogen har dött, men ingen dock Så värdig. Ingen ros, ingen ros, då Månde strös på mitt svarta hus; Ingen vän, ingen vän, må Störa hvilan i jordens grus. Mig lägg, för tusen suckars skull, Åt en sida, Der ej älskande se min mull Och kvida.
Authorship:
Based on:
- a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Twelfth Night: or, What You Will, Act II, scene 4
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), "Kom nu hit, död", op. 60 no. 1 (1909) [ voice and guitar or piano ], from the incidental music to Loppiaisaatto = Trettondagsafton (Twelfth Night), no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Robert Grady
This text was added to the website: 2003-11-20
Line count: 16
Word count: 80
Tule tänne, tule tänne, kuolema! Kietokaa minut mustaan harsoon; mene pois, mene pois, tuska ja hätä! Kaunis neito on vienyt sieluni. Käärinliinat ja puksipuun oksa kirstunkannelle, laita ne valmiiksi: monikin uskollinen on kuollut, mutta ei kukaan näin arvokkaasti. Yhtään ruusua ei silloin saa sirottaa mustan majani päälle; ei ainutkaan ystävä saa häiritä lepoani soraisessa maassa. Haudatkaa minut, tuhansien huokausten tähden, sivummalle, missä rakastava ystävä ei voi nähdä tomuani ja valittaa.
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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.
Erkki Pullinen. Contact: erkki (DOT) pullinen (AT) uniarts (DOT) fi
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Based on:
- a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Carl August Hagberg (1810 - 1864)
Based on:
- a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Twelfth Night: or, What You Will, Act II, scene 4
This text was added to the website: 2010-01-14
Line count: 16
Word count: 70