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Jag har nigit för nymånens skära. Tre ting har jag önskat mig tyst. Det första är du och det andra är du och det tredje är du, min kära. Men ingen får veta ett knyst. Jag har nigit för nymånens skära tre gånger till jorden nu. Och om månen kan ge vad vi önska, så [niger]1 jag tre gånger till, och krona jag bär, när marken sig klär och björkarna gunga av grönska och lärkorna spela sin drill. Det är långsamt att önska och önska. O, vore min kära här ! Lyft nu upp honom, stormmoln, på vingen och tag honom, våg, på din rygg. Han är ung som jag, han är varm som jag, han är härlig och stark som ingen, och säll skall jag sova och trygg i hans armar en gång under vingen av natten, tills natt blir dag.
1 Rangström: "önskar"
Authorship
- by Bo Bergman (1869 - 1967), "Flickan under nymånen", appears in Livets ögon [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 Ture Rangström (1884 - 1947), "Flickan under nymånen", 1924 [voice and piano], from Fem ballader, no. 2. [ sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Anna Hersey) , "The girl beneath the new moon", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2008-09-17
Line count: 24
Word count: 142
I have bowed to the crescent of the new moon. Three things I have quietly wished. The first is you and the second is you and the third is you, my love. But no one must hear a peep. I have bowed to the crescent of the new moon three times to the ground now. And if the moon can grant what we wish, I will wish three more times, and I will wear a crown, when the land is in bloom and the birches swing in verdure and the larks trill. It is lonesome to wish and wish. Oh, if only my love were here! Lift him up now, storm clouds, on the wing and take him, wave, on your back. He is young like me, he is warm like me, he is wonderful and strong like no other, and calm I shall sleep, and safe in his arms again under the wing of night, until night turns to day.
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- a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Bo Bergman (1869 - 1967), "Flickan under nymånen", appears in Livets ögon
This text was added to the website: 2011-08-02
Line count: 24
Word count: 161