RAMPAGE, STORM-WIND!

Lauri Soini(1875-1919)

Again a blizzard fierce blows

and a winter-storm romps

and snow-clouds roar

and a hard wind whistles.

I a poor, gloomy human child

again to life excite,

again feel my breast wistful

for the whirls of the battle.

Although lately as the day was shining

felt to the grave yearning,

now with the blizzard swinging

I want to live, live only.

So rampage, storm-wind fierce,

you rampage, bellow constantly!

Without a storm, a battle fierce

I can't at all live.

22/3 1895.

Riehu, myrskytuuli! has been translated from the collection Runopisareita(1895).

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