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Runo IV]

Down from off her scarlet stockings

To her shoes, all gold-embroidered.

After one tear flowed another,

And her bitter tears flowed freely

From her shoes, all gold-embroidered,

On the ground where she was standing.

As they flowed, the ground they moistened,

And they swelled to streams of water.

On the ground the streams were flowing,

And became the source of rivers;

Thence arose three mighty rivers

From the tears of bitter weeping,

Which were ever ceaseless flowing

From the weeping mother’s eyelids.

From each stream that thus was fashioned,

Rushed three waterfalls in fury,

And amid each cataract’s flowing,

Three great rocks arose together,

And on every rocky summit

There arose a golden mountain,

And on every mountain summit

Up there sprang three beauteous birch-trees,

In the crown of every birch-tree,

Golden cuckoos three were perching.

All at once they called together,

And the first cried, “Sweetheart, sweetheart!”

And the second, “Lover, lover!”

And the third cried, “Gladness, gladness!”

He who cried out, “Sweetheart, sweetheart!”

Sang his song for three months running,

For the young and loveless maiden,

Resting now beneath the water.

He who cried out, “Lover, lover!”

Sang his song for six months running,

Sang to the unhappy suitor,

Who must sorrow through his lifetime.

He who cried out, “Gladness, gladness!”

Sang his song for all a lifetime;

Sang to the unhappy mother,

Who must daily weep for ever.