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Runo IV]

Just beyond she saw three maidens,

Bathing there amid the waters,

Aino made the fourth among them,

And the fifth a slender sapling.

Then her shift she cast on willows,

And her dress upon the aspens,

On the open ground her stockings,

Threw her shoes upon the boulders,

On the sand her beads she scattered,

And her rings upon the shingle.

In the waves a rock was standing,

Brightly hued and golden shining;

And she swam and sought to reach it,

As a refuge in her trouble.

When at length she stood upon it,

And would rest upon the summit,

On the stone of many colours,

On the rock so smooth and shining,

In the waves it sank beneath her,

Sinking to the very bottom.

With the rock, the maiden Aino

Sank beneath the water’s surface.

There the dove for ever vanished,

Thus the luckless maiden perished,

She herself exclaimed in dying,

When she felt that she was sinking:

“To the lake I went to bathe me,

And to swim upon its surface,

But, like tender dove, I vanished,

Like a bird by death o’ertaken.

Never may my dearest father,

Never while his life endureth,

Cast his net amid the waters,

In these waves, so wide extending.

“To the shore I went to wash me,

To the lake I went to bathe me,

But, like tender dove, I vanished,

Like a bird by death o’ertaken.

Never may my dearest mother,

Never while her life endureth,