Upon a Summer's Day (1851-1854)

"Upon a Summer's Day" (Vocal). Words and music by Adolf Fredrik Lindblad. 

First published in America in the same series as "The Herdsman's Mountain Song": the American Edition of Jenny Lind's Swedish Melodies (New York: William Hall & Son [n.d., ca. 1851-54]) with English and Swedish texts. It is sung in Swedish here.

As with the earlier song by Lindblad, the Swedish text is taken from the edition of his Sånger och Visor, in which it is entitled "En sommardag."

O, ljufva sommarflägt,
Som mina kinder smeker!
O! huru svalt och täckt
Din kyss min tinning rört!  
O, whisp'ring summer sigh!
With cool and welcome breathing,
Thou playest silently
Upon my throbbing brow: 
Ditt glada sus jag hör,
Då du med blomstren leker,
Och mera skön du gör
Den dröm, som nyss du stört. Earth with a thousand flow'rs
Her sunny front is wreathing,
Stealing whose fragrant pow'rs
Thou shed'st them o'er me now. 
Hör, hvilken sång
ur sjö och skogar klingar!
Ack, tysta smärtan ned,
som än min ande tvingar! 
But yesterday,
The sun's untemper'd beaming
Glar'd on the blinding clay;
Air thick with dust was teeming; 
Kom, milda sommarflägt!
Af dina vingar täckt,
Ingen glädje jag begär,
Men romig blott beskär! 
Blossoms hung down for dead,
Parch'd on a parching bed:
Drought prepar'd to wreak its worst,
Creation seem'd a thirst! 
Hör, hvilken röst
i dina suckar talar!
O! hur mitt qvalda bröst
du tjusar och hugsvalar! 
When in the west
Thy voice, the song of even,
Fraught with relief and rest,
Came stealing down from Heaven! 
Far, milda sommarvind!
Helsa till björk och lind!
Deras frid jag njuta fick,
Men blott ett ögonblick. 
Flower and languid grove
Echo its sigh of love,
Now to me 'tis given
Equal thankfulness to prove.