EVENING

Uuno Kailas(1901-1933)

I see a boat its sails off taking.

Behind a railway embankment's coiling snake

yet ended the Sun's escape.

Behind it a ravenous cloud.

It like a bird flies over the land 

with a neck extended,

maw open like the Sun, the night's firefly,

it would desire to catch and devour.

And reaped the reeds of the shore.

I see the shallow water gazing suspiciously

now like an odd eye lashes lacking

into the evening desolate and shadowy.

And the wind flutters in its last

and soon from its wings will fall

like a thought, scared of its flight

over the infinite, strange land.

(Ilta; Runoja, 1932, s. 72-73.)

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