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Runo XXII]

Then thy head thou liftest higher,

And thy ears thou liftest higher.

“This throughout my life I wished for,

All my youthful days I hoped for,

And throughout the year I wished it,

Like the coming of the summer.

Now my hope has found fulfilment;

Near the time of my departure;

One foot resting on the threshold,

In my husband’s sledge the other,

But I do not yet know rightly,

If my mind has not been altered.

Not with joyful thoughts I wander

Nor do I depart with pleasure

From the golden home beloved,

Where I passed my life in childhood,

Where I passed my days of girlhood,

Where my father lived before me.

Sadly I depart in sorrow,

Forth I go, most sadly longing,

As into the night of autumn,

As on slippery ice in springtime,

When on ice no track remaineth,

On its smoothness rests no footprint.

“What may be the thoughts of others,

And of other brides the feelings?

Do not other brides encounter,

Bear within their hearts the trouble,

Such as I, unhappy, carry?

Blackest trouble rests upon me,

Black as coal my heart within me,

Coal-black trouble weighs upon me.

“Such the feelings of the blessed,

Such the feelings of the happy;

As the spring day at its dawning,

Or the sunny spring-day morning;

But what thoughts do now torment me,

And what thoughts arise within me?

Like unto a pond’s flat margin,

Or of clouds the murky border;