Many runes the cold has taught me,
Many lays the rain has brought me,
Other songs the winds have sung me;
Many birds from many forests
Oft have sung me lays in concord;
Waves of sea, and ocean billows,
Music from the many waters,
Music from the whole creation,
Oft have been my guide and master.
_The Kalevala._
[Illustration: “Beauty and solitude, ... these are the shepherd kings
of the imagination, to compel our wandering memories, our thoughts, our
dreams.”