From the album "Maa". Just Beautiful!
From the album "Maa". Just Beautiful!
Thanks sincerely to Dendron88 for sending the Lyrics and English translation. Thank you so much!!! Greetings from Brazil!
Lyrics:
Music: Hannu Lepola -- Lyrics: Eino Leino (1878-1926)
Hiljaa sa kätesi ojensit,
otit pois sen vieläkin hiljempaa,
ylt'ympäri puut ne helisi
ja kuurassa kimmelsi luminen maa;
ma kuulin askeleet eroovat,
näin varren vienon, mi vieri pois,
ja yksin yössä mä seisoin, - oli
kuin jotakin kaunista kadonnut ois.
Ma seisoin ja mietin ja muistelin:
Mikä olitkaan runo kaunis sa,
jok'äsken soit minun mielessäin
ja jok' olit vallan jo valmiina.
Yhä tuota turhaan ma tuumailen.
Mikä poissa on, se jääpi pois.
Mut mielein tuntuu niin tyhjältä
kuin jotakin kaunista kadonut ois.
Quietly
Transalation Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
Quietly thou didst give me thy hand,
More quietly still thou didst take it away.
All around us the trees rustled,
And with frost the snowy ground was glimmering.
I heard the footsteps parting.
I saw the slender body going away,
And alone I stood in the night --
It was as if something beautuful had just disappeared.
I stood and I thought and I remembered:
What wert thou, O lovely poem
That just ran through my mind,
All perfect and complete?
I cannot bring it back.
What is gone remains gone.
My mind is so empty
As if something beautiful had just disappeared.
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