Din favn er min fred. Din hånd er varm å trykke. Ditt smil er min lønn, det er hele min lykke. Din stemme gjør meg glad, den kjenner jeg nøye. Men hvorfor blir jeg redd når jeg møter ditt øie?
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Authorship:
- by Arnulf Øverland (1889 - 1968) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Paul Okkenhaug (1908 - 1975), "Ditt øie", c1935 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Nils Lid Hjort
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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