"Wainamoinen's Harp Songs"
"Afterward the entertainer of Wainola"Took the harp of his masterpiece,"Eager adjusting, gorgeously alteration,"Proficiently plied his smart fingers"To the strings that he had produced."Now was gladness rolled on gladness,"And the agreement of stimulate"Echoed from the hills and mountains:"Specially on stage to his playing,"Out of joy did joy come welling,"Now resounded gigantic music,"All of Northland immobile and listened."Whichever creature in the forest,"All the beasts that hangout the woodlands,"On their lovely feet came bounding,"Came to think about to his playing,"Came to conclude his songs of joyance."Leaped the squirrels from the brushwood,"Gladly from birch to aspen;"Climbed the ermines on the fences,"O'er the plains the elk-deer enclosed,"And the lynxes purred with pleasure;"Wolves awoke in detached swamp-lands,"Bounded o'er the bog and heather,"And the abide his den in ruins,"Departed his foxhole within the pine-wood,"Specific by a fence to think about,"Leaned on the listening gate-posts,"But the gate-posts pay less than him;"Now he climbs the fir-tree brushwood"That he may value and consider,"Climbs and listens to the music"Of the harp of Wainamoinen."
"~RUNE XLI."
~The Kalevala is a 19th century work of couplet style compiled by Elias L"onnrot from Finnish and Karelian traditional tradition and mythology. The above description is by John Martin Crawford,
