Classic Poem

A FINLAND LOVE SONG

I SAW the moon rise clear
 O'er hills and vales of snow,
Nor told my fleet reindeer
 The track I wished to go.
Yet quick he bounded forth;
 For well my reindeer knew
I 've but one path on earth—
 The path which leads to you.

The gloom that winter cast
 How soon the heart forgets,
When summer brings, at last,
 Her sun that never sets!
So dawned my love for you;
 So, fixt thro' joy and pain,
Than summer sun more true,
 'T will never set again.