Omkring tiggarn från Luossa
Swedish poem by Dan Andersson / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Omkring tiggarn från Luossa (Around the beggar from Luossa) is a poem by the Swedish proletarian author Dan Andersson. Its nine four-line verses, with a ABAB rhyming scheme, create a picture of longing for something beyond the visible world. The poem was published in his 1917 poetry collection Svarta ballader (Black Ballads). It has become well-known through popular recordings by musicians including the Hootenanny Singers, Thorstein Bergman [sv], and Sofia Karlsson.