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Tonight I\u2019ve been walking
from Hedsunda town
where I fruitlessly begged for a room,
my worn-out shoe soles
are weighing me down
damp with dirt and soaked from the storm.<\/p>\n
I had come from the granite robbers\u2019 den
where the dark was every man\u2019s mate.
After years of brooding
and months of grief
and nights that were black with hate.<\/p>\n
Because I adored fighting
with stone and knife
and laughed at brooding and crime –
until one day I took a woman\u2019s life,
and spent long years serving my time.<\/p>\n
By the pond at Kersna
Below H\u00e4vamo cliff
I was planning to end my days
when the rays of the fleeting moon shone like gold
o\u2019er the shores and nocturnal haze.<\/p>\n
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a need not to die,
though I hated to live all the same –
it is bitter to die
in a night-black pond
and as bitter to live in shame.<\/span><\/p>\n
til one\u2019s breath is naught but hate –
tho the sun is bright – tho the summer abounds –
it is bitter, bitter, my mate!<\/p>\n
English translation by: Linda Schenck<\/p>\n