
Date of issue: 31.10.2014
Song language: English
A Sparrow On A Christmas Morning |
Sleep the flowers of the vale underneath the snow |
Turned to ice with winter’s grasp, water’s playful flow |
A sparrow, a tiny one. |
Cold north wants you undone |
Turned to ice with winter’s grasp, water’s playful flow |
At the yard of a poor man’s house, a girl kind and dear: |
A seed for you my tiny one, a seed for you right here! |
Oh, you poor homeless thing. |
Christmas cannot make you sing |
Seed for you my tiny one, seed for you right here! |
Heart and wing afluttering, the girl and the bird |
Featherlight touch on her palm and a voice she’s heard: |
Blessings to you my dear! |
Your kindness brought me here |
Featherlight touch on her palm and a voice she’s heard |
I have lived your life, oh child, and to you I tell, |
That I am your brother’s ghost, and I knew you well |
This seed grown by the sun, a kindness to a tiny one |
Gift for your dead brother’s ghost. |
Still he knows you well. |
…There is also a note from Marco Hietala: |
The story of the sparrow is a sad one. |
Child death was way more frequent in the past of course. |
Writer of the song Zacharias Topelius and his family lost their one |
Year old son Rafael Topelius and Z. |
Topelius' sorrow took a more concrete form in this particular poem. |
The writer’s love of nature also comes across as the other of the |
Main characters is a tiny bird. |
Quite like in the «Sylvia's Song» also. |
In this simple song the Finnish people have their own «Ghost of |
Christmas» to compete with the ones Charles |
Dickens wrote about in his «A Christmas Carol». |
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