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already ’twas expected,

Long expected and awaited,

That the new bride soon would enter

The abode of Ilmarinen;

And the eyes with rheum were dripping

Of the old folks at the windows,

And the young folks’ knees were failing

As about the door they waited,

And the children’s feet were freezing,

By the wall as they were standing,

Mid-aged folks their shoes were spoiling,

As upon the beach they wandered.

And at length upon a morning,

Just about the time of sunrise,

From the wood they heard a rattling,

As the sledge came rushing onward.

Lokka then the kindest hostess,

Kaleva’s most handsome matron,

Uttered then the words which follow:

“’Tis my son’s sledge now approaching,

As from Pohjola he cometh,

And he brings the youthful damsel.

Straight he journeys to this country,

To the homestead hastens onward,

To the house his father gave him,

Which his parents had constructed.”