Mitt var starfið

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	Traduzione inglese 2 / English translation 2 / Traduction anglaise...
MY JOB	MY WORK

My job was in this world	My work, in a world of
hot and cold days,	hot and cold days,
to wipe and comb children	was to clean and comb kids
and work hard at darning.	and to toil away darning.

I yearned to play freely	I longed to play freely
like a lamb in the green pasture,	like a lamb in a green meadow,
but they are not granted peace	but those who have holes to darn
who are supposed to darn holes.	are not shown any mercy.

I longed to pick flowers	I longed to read the flowers
during the long and bright days,	on long, bright sunny days,
but need said with a voice of thunder:	but necessity ordered in a thunderous voice:
You should be darning.	"You should be darning."

The world had a hard judgment	The world had a heavy doom
to hang on my coathooks,	to hang upon my hook.
how I was bereft of qualities	Of qualities I was void
and suited to darning.	and for darning I was born.

Come the Devil with his knife	Should death come with his knife
and cut short my days,	and shorten my days
I think it will be my lot	I think it will be my fate
to darn socks in Hell.	to darn away in hell.

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