VALDEMAR Ganger! staar du nu og drømmer! Nej, jeg ser det. Vejen strommer Hurtig bort dig under Hoven. Stærkere dog frem du sprænge, Du er endnu midt i Skoven, Medens jeg dig ventet længe Har ved Gurre Borgeled. Skoven slipper, alt jeg øjner Tovelilles fagre Bur, Skovens Træer bag os glide sammen til en dunkel Mur ; Men end vildere du jage! Ser du Skyens Skygge trække Over Mark og Mose frem? Før den Gurres Grund kan række, Maa vi staa ved Toves Hjem ; Før den Tone, som nu klinger, Gaar for Evighed til Ro, Maa dit rappe Hovslag ryste Gurre-Borgens lille Bro ; Før det Blad, der falder, Bækkens Bølger naa'r, Maa din Vrinsken gjalde Lydt i Gurregaard. Skygge kom og Tone dø. Dyk dig Blad i Vove : Volmer ser sin Tove !
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Confirmed with J. P. Jacobsen Udvalgte Digte, Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Vorlag, Kjøbenhavn og Kristiana, 1919
Authorship:
- by Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847 - 1885), no title, appears in Gurresange, no. 3 [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):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Robert Franz Arnold (originally Levisohn) (1872 - 1938) CAT ENG FRE FRE ITA ; composed by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Pierre Mathé [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2013-08-14
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Word count: 136
Waldemar: Roß! Mein Roß! Was schleichst du so träg! Nein, ich seh's, es flieht der Weg hurtig unter der Hufe Tritten. Aber noch schneller mußt du eilen, bist noch in des Waldes Mitten, und ich wähnte, ohn' Verweilen sprengt' ich gleich in Gurre ein. Nun weicht der Wald, schon seh' ich dort die Burg, die Tove mir umschließt, indes im Rücken uns der Forst zu finstrem Wall zusammenfließt; aber noch weiter jage du zu! Sieh! Des Waldes Schatten dehnen über Flur sich weit und Moor! Eh' sie Gurres Grund erreichen, muß ich stehn vor Toves Tor. Eh' der Laut, der jetzo klinget, ruht, um nimmermehr zu tönen, muß dein flinker Hufschlag, Renner, über Gurres Brücke dröhnen; eh' das welke Blatt - dort schwebt es -, mag herab zum Bache fallen, muß in Gurres Hof dein Wiehern fröhlich widerhallen! Der Schatten dehnt sich, der Ton verklingt, nun falle, Blatt, magst untergehn: Volmer hat Tove gesehn!
Authorship:
- by Robert Franz Arnold (1872 - 1938) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Danish (Dansk) by Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847 - 1885), no title, appears in Gurresange, no. 3
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Roß! Mein Roß! Was schleigst du so träg! (Waldemar)", c1900, published 1912 [soli, chorus, orchestra], from Gurrelieder, no. 1c [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , title unknown, copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Linda Godry) , title unknown, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , title unknown, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , title unknown, copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2013-08-14
Line count: 27
Word count: 154