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Far and wide the tidings travelled, / Far away men heard the story / Of the flight and death of Aino, / Sister dear of Youkahainen, / Fairest daughter of creation.
Wainamoinen, brave and truthful, / Straightway fell to bitter weeping, / Wept at morning, wept at evening, / Sleepless, wept the dreary night long, / That his Aino had departed, / That the maiden thus had vanished, / Thus had sunk upon the bottom / Of the blue-sea, deep and boundless.