Tule tänne, tule tänne, kuolema!

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by Carl August Hagberg (1810 - 1864)

Translation © by Erkki Pullinen

Kom nu hit, död

Language: Swedish (Svenska) after the English

Our translations: FIN

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.

Text Authorship:

by Carl August Hagberg (1810 - 1864) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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
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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 page: Robert Grady

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-20
Line count: 16
Word count: 80

Tule tänne, tule tänne, kuolema!

Language: Finnish (Suomi) after the Swedish (Svenska)

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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Based on:

a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Carl August Hagberg (1810 - 1864)
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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
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2010-01-14
Line count: 16
Word count: 70