maanantai 10. tammikuuta 2022

THAT TOO IS A PITY

Kasimir Leino(1866-1919)

Crooked in a factory sits
orphan boy doing work.
Already stooped in work frail back,
started to waste poor chest.

That can't witness society,
feelings of pity overwhelm:
A law new is made from that,
young boys from each work forbidden.

In winter frost orphan went
witheredly thin begging,
until in his hunger to the road starved -
from human pity that wretch died!

Sääliä sekin has been translated from the collection Runokokeita(1886).


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