Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte - Jean Sibelius

Jonathan Beyer, baritone and Joel Harder, Piano
September 21, 2019 - Binghamton NY Live Recital
Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte
Jean Sibelius - opus 37 no 5
Poetry by J. L. Runeberg
English Translation (by Lynn Steele)
The girl came from meeting her lover,
She came with her hands all red. Said her mother: "What has made your hands so red, girl?" Said the girl: "I was picking roses
and pricked my hands on the thorns."
Again she came from meeting her lover,
She came with her lips all red. Said her mother:
"What has made your lips so red, girl?"
Said the girl: "I was eating raspberries
and stained my lips with the juice."
Again she came from meeting her lover,
came with her cheeks all pale. Said her mother:
"What has made your cheeks so pale, girl?"
Said the girl: "Oh mother, dig a grave for me,
Hide me there and set a cross above,
And on the cross write as I tell you:
Once she came home with her hands all red,
they had turned red between her lover's hands.
Once she came home with her lips all red,
they had turned red beneath her lover's lips.
The last time she came home with her cheeks all pale, they turned pale at her lover's infidelity.”