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(Posted 2016-12-21) CPDL #42357 :
Editor: Kathryn Rose (submitted 2016-12-21 ) . Score information: A4, 3 pages, 57 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
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General Information
Title: Talvilaulu
Composer: Kathryn Rose
Lyricist: Eino Leinocreate page
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SSA
Genre: Secular
Language: Finnish
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 2016
Description: Words in Finnish and English; English translation by Rupert Moreton.
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Original text and translations
Finnish text
On aurinko astunut mereen,
meren kattanut jäykkä jää,
syys siirtynyt sankarin vereen,
pian talvikin hallapää.
Ja voittanut on epäusko,
sydän särkynyt heikosti lyö,
on sammunut viimeinen rusko
ja pitkä on pohjolan yö.
Tule vitkaan talvinen huura
yli maan, yli puun, yli veen,
sada hiljaa kuoleman kuura
yli urhon uinahtaneen.
English text
The sun on the sea now has mounted,
freezing ridges atop the sea,
and fall with past heroes is counted,
winter’s frost will soon with us be.
And faithlessness seeming is winning,
weakly beating my broken heart,
the tinge of leaf browning is thinning –
lengthy northerly night will start.
O, frost of the winter, come slowly
o’er the earth and the gladed pool,
O, deathly, may frost settle quietly
‘pon the dozing heroic fool.