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Lemminkainen, reckless minstrel, / Handsome hero, Kaukomieli, / Hastens as the dawn is breaking, / At the dawning of the morning, / To the resting-place of vessels, / To the harbor of the island, / Finds the vessels sorely weeping, / Hears the wailing of the rigging, / And the ships intone this chorus:
"Must we wretched lie forever / In the harbor of this island, / Here to dry and fall in pieces?