LIKE THE BIRDS OF THE DARK WATERS

Ilmari Pimiä(1897-1989)

Over the limpid, glittering water

goes the flight of the gulls quietly in the night.

And the reeds sway in happy dreaming.

Like a song dying

plays the rustle of the wings -

and a surge passes in the shore grass.

They fly, snow white flocks,

and beyond great seas disappear.

In my chest a great joy I feel secretly:

Like the birds of the dark waters

life with its sorrows

so disappears - and never again returns!

Kuin linnut tumman veen...(1926) has been translated from the anthology, edited by Satu Marttila (Satu Koskimies, 1941-), Juha Virkkunen(1941-2008) and Mirjam Polkunen(1926-2012), Tämän runon haluaisin kuulla 2(1989), page 246.

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