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Drive from out their stalls the cattle,

Send the cattle forth to pasture,

After them she sent the shepherd,

That the slave should drive the cattle.

, Kalervo’s offspring,

Put his lunch into his wallet,

Drove the cows along the marshes,

While across the heath he wandered,

And he spoke as he was going,

And repeated on his journey,

“Woe to me, a youth unhappy,

And a youth of wretched fortune!

Wheresoe’er I turn my footsteps,

Nought but idleness awaits me;

I must watch the tails of oxen,

And must watch the calves I follow,

Always tramping through the marshes,

Through the worst of level country.”

Then upon the ground he rested,

On a sunny slope he sat him,

And he then composed these verses,

And expressed himself in singing:

“Sun of Jumala, O shine thou,

Of the Lord, thou wheel, shine warmly,

On the warder of the smith’s herd,

And upon the wretched shepherd,