LANDSCAPE

Kaarlo Sarkia(1902-1945)

It's a shadowy evening,

and smoke rises from saunas.

A corn crake solitary

just creaks somewhere.

By the wall of a cottage

there is a red poppy,

and from somewhere the smell of hay

swims over the fields.

Afar sounds the sough of a rapid

throughout the silent night.

Over a fen meadow mist

now rises white.

A corn crake solitary

again creaks somewhere...

It's a shadowy evening,

and smoke rises from saunas.

(Maisema; Kahlittu, 1929.)

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