EVENING

Kaarlo Sarkia(1902-1945)

It's evening. Lilacs bloom.

Very far away music plays.

I'm ill and so very joyful -

one can barely believe.

Night's dewy air

goes through the window.

His name in its fragnance flows -

him I love.

(Ilta; Velka elämälle, 1931, sivu 17.)

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