Draumen - Glittertind

Det var natt,

og du låg og såg i taket.

Og du tenkte du må ut —

Det kan hende det er noko

du har gløymt —

Og at alt ikkje er ondt

slik du har drøymt.

Så du gjekk,

ut og dreiv omkring i skogen.

Då med eit så fekk du sjå -

Ein himmel opna seg

så klår og rein —

Og våren lo til deg

frå kvar ei grein.

Han sa: Per, å, du Per,

Å hei, og hopp!

— og er du no der!

Og kjenner du ikkje,

ikveld, ikveld,

På eit strå,

så kraup ei lita larve.

Og du tenkte det var deg —

Kvifor byrjar alt det vakre

i det små?

Kvifor vere blind for alt

når du kan sjå?

Så du drakk,

ut av duft frå gras og blomar.

Og du blåste frå din barm —

Alt det skrotet og

det skrapet frå ifjor —

Det tok vinden opp

og vifta så det fór.

Han sa: Per, å, du Per,

ko-ko, titt-titt!

— og er du no der!

Og kjenner du ikkje,

ikveld, ikveld,

Ja, du Per, å, du Per,

Å hei, hurra!

— no er han her!

Og det kan han kjenna

ikveld, ikveld,

at livet, det er no det likaste lell!

It was night,

and you lay looking at the ceiling.

And you thought you had to go out -

It may be something

you forgot -

And that not everything is evil

as you have dreamed.

So you went,

out and drifted around in the woods.

Then with one you got to see -

A sky opened up

so clear and reindeer -

And spring laughed at you

from left a branch.

He said: Per, oh, you Per,

Oh hey, and jump!

- and are you there now!

And do not you know,

tonight, tonight,

On a straw,

so a small larva crawled.

And you thought it was you -

Why does all the beauty begin

in the small?

Why be blind to everything

when can you see?

So you drank,

out of scent from grass and flowers.

And you blew from your bosom -

All that scrap and

that scrap from last year -

It took the wind up

and fan so it went.

He said: Per, oh, you Per,

ko-ko, look-look!

- and are you there now!

And do not you know,

tonight, tonight,

Yes, you Per, oh, you Per,

Oh hey, hooray!

- now he's here!

And he can feel it

tonight, tonight,

that life, it is now the most similar lell!