YOU PROMISED MUCH...

Antti Rytkönen(1870-1930)

You promised much

and gave little,

don't come again, summer,

to betray me.

Better, to live under

stars of winter,

better, that familiar

is the hoary frost,

than hear summer

is passing upon lands,

and feel that

is lacking summer.

Sä lupasit paljon... has been translated from the page 178 of the anthology Jo valkenee kaukainen ranta: Suomalaisia runoja(1989), which was edited by Hannu Sarala.

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