LONGING

Uuno Kailas(1901-1933)

This evening who would play for me,

when the Sun is descending to the sea.

This wordless peace of expanses

who in notes with hot blood would translate.

This evening who would play for me,

when the wind falls asleep in the reed tips for the night.

So ill I am. Heart longs

now for the wedding of the clouds and the dusk.

This evening who would play for me

and sing to me a song about longing.

Oh that with glittering wings could

like a bird of passage fly from life!

Kaipaus has been translated from the page 138 of the anthology Jo valkenee kaukainen ranta: Suomalaisia runoja(1989), which was edited by Hannu Sarala.

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