IN THE COTTAGE WHERE ALEKSIS KIVI DIED

Uuno Kailas(1901-1933)

Your spirit fills

this cottage fully.

It's with me now and says:

- Take your stave,

go far in the gloom

and the dark; don't look back.

Die alone, child,

when you can't cope anymore.

And your lips may then whisper:

I live.

1925

Aleksis Kiven kuolinmajassa has been translated from the collection Punajuova(1933).

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