OMENANKUKAT

Eino Leino(1878-1926)

My love flowers like an apple tree

on bright spring nights,

when the crowns of firs are bending

and maidens are dreaming.

Those nights around Whitsun,

those nights are vast and deep

and then if only the wind won't come,

shall good fruits ripen.

O, grant calm now, heaven,

if after you something else give!

O, protect my God strong

now an orphan's apple tree!

(Omenankukat; Sata ja yksi laulua, 1898.)

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