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Hi Pia,

I think it'll be difficult to keep the rhyme.

if all?

Yes... probably, but the meaning of the words are the most important here (at least for me, I'm not a poet!!)

The author of this text was so clever with both words/ meaning & rhyme. I think it's impossible to translate his texts into other languages with same brilliance. I wasn't expecting that anyway.

Maybe better to make this request a "meaning only"?

OK, but why don't you try the English version yourself? We could discuss it and reach a good result.

For the tired body of society
may the best cure would be
if the thoughts at the top
came from the root

Litterally, it doesn't rhyme at all

I submitted the request for all those languages, because I can't translate it myself. I think we have many talented people on here, undestanding Swedish pretty well and being faaar better than me in English. But if you are willing to work on it Lilian, I'm glad.