Joel Lehtonen(1881-1934)
Oh, I would still wish to live so!
The bliss of the earth I love so!
It I love like a poor,
who reaches for riches!
Or like a lazy and greedy,
who for the sake of pleasure
still in the table sits, even
when he has got his fill.
Or like a man grown poor
and humiliated:
even a morsel he thanks for, -
the worth of a penny he alone knew...
Oi, tahtoisin vieläkin elää niin... has been translated from the page 193 of the anthology Jo valkenee kaukainen ranta: Suomalaisia runoja(1989), which was edited by Hannu Sarala.
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