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Jacobsen, Rolf: My Tree (Mitt tre in English)

Portre of Jacobsen, Rolf

Mitt tre (Norwegian)

Eneren, lyngens mor, er mitt tre.
Den trenger ingen sommer, bare regn og sne.

Fillet krone den løfter, ingen har hørt dens sus.
Den har en la, seig rot som kan gro av grus.

Den bærer vind over skuldrene, skyene i sitt hår.
Den kan stå i stormen. Knelende. Men den står.

Kanskje den har en drøm i sindet: Det hvite ranunkel-bed
der verden slutter og breene kommer ned.

Av alle trær på jorden nærmest den store sne,
breenes blinde sol. Å, var jeg som det.



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My Tree (English)

Juniper, heather’s mother, is my tree.
No summer-rain and snow are all it needs.

It lifts a ragged crown: no one has heard its rustle.
It has a long, tough root that can grow in gravel.

It wears wind on its shoulders, in its hair the clouds.
It can hold in storms. Kneeling. But it holds.

Perhaps it has a dream in mind: the white crow-foot bed
where the world stops and the glaciers descend.

Closest of all trees on earth to the great snow,
the glacier's blind sun. Oh, to be one of them.



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Source of the quotationhttps://books.google.hu/books

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