AT SEPARATION

Eino Leino(1878-1926)

I reminiscence upon you:

nightingales are singing

in my dimming night.

You reminiscence upon me:

shrikes are flying

to perch upon your head.

We reminiscence on each other:

two beautiful ones in the summer,

summer leaf as the third.

(Erotessa; Talviyö, 1905.)

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