{"id":2253,"date":"2016-05-28T12:33:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T11:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2018-08-07T10:31:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T09:31:25","slug":"tove-janssons-autumn-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=2253","title":{"rendered":"Tove Jansson’s Autumn Song"},"content":{"rendered":"This is a rotten although pretty literal translation of Höstvisa <\/em>(Autumn Song), a poem by Tove Jansson which I found through a line in PO Enquist’s Liknelseboken<\/i>. I have lost all of the rhyme and most of the swing of the original, but I think what remains is still worth posting.
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I met with no one on the long way home\nThe evenings grow cold and stretch far ahead
\nCome comfort me a little for I am tired now
\nAnd suddenly so dreadfully alone.
\nI never saw before that the darkness is so vast,
\nI walk and think of all those things I ought
\nThere are so many things I should have said and done
\nAnd there’s so very little that I did\n\n

Hasten, beloved, and hurry to love
\nEach minute now the days grow darker
\nLight all our candles while night closes round us:
\nThe blossoming summer will soon be all gone<\/p>\n\n

I’m looking for something perhaps we’ve forgotten
\nwhich you might help me to find
\nOne summer passes, and it’s always just as brief
\nIt’s the dream of what we could have gained.
\nPerhaps you will come some time before the dusk grows blue
\nbefore the meadows are dry and empty
\nPerhaps we’ll find each other perhaps we’ll find then
\na way to make everything flower<\/p>\n\n

Hasten , beloved, and hurry to love
\nEach minute now the days grow darker
\nLight all our candles while night closes round us:
\nThe blossoming summer will soon be all gone<\/p>\n\n

The storm out there has slammed the summer’s door
\nIt’s too late now to wonder and too late to search
\nPerhaps I love you less than I did before
\nBut more than you will ever know
\nNow we see all the lighthouses down the long coast of autumn
\nand hear the lost waves wander
\nOne thing only matters and that’s the heart’s desire
\nAnd to be together with one another.<\/p>\n\n

Hasten, beloved, and hurry to love
\nEach minute now the days grow darker
\nLight all our candles while night closes round us:
\nThe blossoming summer will soon be all gone<\/p>\n\n\n<\/blockquote>\nYou can hear it done as a song, rather beautifully, here <\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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