Poems (Radford)/Finnish (a translation)

by Dollie Radford

Finnish (A Translation)

Far so far my sweetheart is,
 Long it takes to find him,
Lonely miles of land and sea
 Left so far behind him.

Far so far my sweetheart strays,
 And my hope is dying,
Far so far, the little birds
 Cannot there be flying.

If a letter that were his
 Some swift bird would bear me
I should be so surely healed,
 Sorrow then would spare me.

Fly to me, oh little bird,
 Speak that I may hear you,
Were you in my sweetheart's land
 And my sweetheart near you?

Fly to me, oh little bird,
 Speak that I may hear you.