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Filled with refreshing drink,
Værandi loyally
Follows her sister,
Thanking with mournful eye.
Dark but delightful
Skulda appears,
Points towards the future's blue:
"Singer! your memory
Shall live eternally,
Never your song shall die!
“Soon you sit
Blissful among spirits
Here in transfiguration's home,
Even if Norden's
Mighty race changes,
You will never be forgotten among them!"
IN THE NIGHT
Nature slumbers behind the cover of night in a dream of forgetfulness, then the soul
makes ready its sailboat, to drift on memory's stream; sadly quiet it is carried along the
flowering shore there where the sighing wave is concealed by shadowing forests.
Look, a comforter then climbs kindly on board the sailboat, while a blending minor chord
trembles from familiar voices; with soothing harmony it wafts past my soul, to greet
intimately the fair visions with engrossed lament!
Yet do not stir memory's bright wave with life's gust, surely at a moment's thought my
world would collapse! Remembrance's night violet will be closed by daylight; it unfolds
so gladly under the twinkling stars!
Then glide, my soul! on easy currents towards memory's shore, there you can quietly
weave flowers in the night's peace! How lovely, in the dream to embrace again each
memory as a friend; yes, lovely, to follow its longing across remembrance's wave!
MOONLIGHT STROLL AFTER A BALL
(Written at the request of Sophie Holst and Cathrine Martini.)
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