Hyvästi[461] kultaseni[462], hyvästi kultani,
Mun[86] lähteä[1] nyt[463] täytyy[464] pois[465] kotimaaltan[466].
Mun[86] täytyvi[464] nyt[463] mennä[294] merille[295]
kulkemaan[240]!
Ja sinua en tieä[466a] jos[102] näen[466b] millonkaan[467].
Lahella[468] laiva[469] pieni[470] minua outtelee[471]; 5
Se mulla[472] kotimaani[466] ja tuttavani[473] lie[285].
Se kotimaani[466] mulla[472] ja tuuli[474] kultani[462],
Ja aalto[99] armnhani[475] tahikka[476] surmani[60].
Jo[12] ennen[477] monta[478] miestä[164] se meri[295] petteli[479],
Ja monen[478] kullan[462] silmät[480] vesille[481] jätteli[482]. 10
Vaan[483] ellös[484] mua[472] surko[484], jos[102] ehkä[485]
kuolisin[486];
Sä[487] suotta[488] kaottaisit[489] ikäsi[490] kaunihin[491].
Kun[50] kuulet[492] kuolleheksi[493], tee[494] risti[495]
rantahan[391],
Ja aallon[99] luomat[496] luuni[497] ne peitä[498] santahan[499].
Ja ota[385] pieni[470] ruusu[500] ja laita[156] kasvamaan[501], 15
Käy[7] sitte[502] kesäilloin[503] välistä[504] katsomaan[193].
Kun[71] ruusu[500] kaunihisti[491] kesällä[503] kukostaa[505],
Se rakkauteni[506] kuvan[507] eteesi[508] muovostaa[509].
Hyvästi[461] vielä[107] kerta[108], hyvästi ystävä[510]!
Ei[512] suremaan[511] nyt[463] auta[512], vaan[483] täytyy[404]
lähteä. 20
Farewell, dear love, farewell, my love,
Now must I set forth from home.
Now I must go to wander on the seas
And know not if I shall ever see thee.
A little ship awaits me in the bay: 5
It will be my home and friend.
It will be my home and the wind my love,
And the wave my darling or my death.
That sea has lured many men ere now,
And filled many a lover’s eyes with tears. 10
But grieve not for me, if perchance I die:
Thou wouldst waste thy fair life in vain.
If thou hearest I am dead, place a cross on the shore,
And my bones cast up by the wave, hide them in the sand.
And take a little rose and set it to grow, 15
Then go sometimes on summer evenings to look at it.
When the rose flowers gaily in the summer
It will form a picture of my love for thee.
Farewell once more, farewell, friend,
It is no good grieving: I must start. 20
[Note 461: Adv. of =hyvä=, _good_ (p. 117), used to mean _good-bye_.]
[Note 462: Dimin. of =kulta=, _gold_ or _darling_, with affix of 1st
person.]
[Note 463: Adv. _now_.]
[Note 464: Impers. verb _it is necessary_, followed by 1st infin. (p.
187); =täytyy= and =täytyvi= are identical (p. 226, viii).]
[Note 465: Adv. _away_, also used in inessive =poissa=.]
[Note 466: Compound of =koti=, _home_, and =maa=, _land_; _v._ No. 65.]
[Note 466a: = =tiedä=, negative form of =tietää=, _to know_.]
[Note 466b: 1st pers. sing. of =nähdä= (p. 108).]
[Note 467: = =milloinkaan= (_v._ pp. 117, 169).]
[Note 468: = =lahdella=, adessive sing. of =lahti=, _bay_.]
[Note 469: Nominative sing. a _ship_.]
[Note 470: Nominative sing. _little_.]
[Note 471: = =odottelee=, 3rd sing. pres. of =odotella=, deriv. from
=odottaa=, _to wait_.]
[Note 472: = =minulla=; cf. =mua= = =minua=.]
[Note 473: 1st part. passive for =tunnettava=, from =tuntea=, _to know_.
Here used as substantive with affix of 1st pers., _friend_.]
[Note 474: Nominative sing. _wind_.]
[Note 475: Nominative with suffix of 1st pers. from stem =armaha= (nom.
=armas=), _dear_.]
[Note 476: = =taikka=, _or_.]
[Note 477: Adv. (gen. of =ensi=), _before_.]
[Note 478: Part. sing. of =moni=, _many_, taking a partitive after it (p.
171, iv.).]
[Note 479: 3rd sing. imperf. of =petellä=, deriv. verb from =pettää=, _to
deceive_.]
[Note 480: Accusative plur. of =silmä=, _eye_.]
[Note 481: Allative plur. of =vesi=, _water_.]
[Note 482: 3rd sing. imperf. of =jätellä=, derived from =jättää=. For the
use of this verb with the illative or allative, _v._ p. 156. The sentence
means literally _has abandoned the eyes of many a lover to waters_; i.e.
has filled with tears.]
[Note 483: Conj. _but_.]
[Note 484: 2nd sing. negative opt. of =surra= (like =tulla=).]
[Note 485: Adv. _perhaps_.]
[Note 486: 1st sing. conditional of =kuolla=, _to die_ (like =tulla=).]
[Note 487: = =sinä=.]
[Note 488: Part. sing. of =suosi=, _pleasure_ (not used); used
adverbially to mean _for mere pleasure_, _without serious cause_; hence
_in vain_, _uselessly_.]
[Note 489: 2nd sing. conditional of =kadottaa=, _to loose_, trans. form
of =kadota=, _to fall_.]
[Note 490: Accusative sing. of =ikä=, _life_, with suffix of 2nd pers.
N.B. =k= is not weakened.]
[Note 491: Accusative sing. of =kaunis=, _beautiful_, stem =kaunihi=; the
adv. is used in l. 17.]
[Note 492: 2nd sing. pres. of =kuulla= (like =tulla=), _to hear_.]
[Note 493: Translative sing. of 2nd part. act. of =kuolla= (_v._ 486).
For use _v._ p. 201.]
[Note 494: 2nd sing. imperf. of =tehdä=, followed by illative; _v._ p.
156 ad. in.]
[Note 495: Nominative sing. _cross_, obj. of =tee= (p. 128, iii).]
[Note 496: Accusative plur. of 3rd infin. of =luoda=, used as a past
part. (p. 191). For =luoda=, meaning _to cast_, _v._ No. 375.]
[Note 497: Accusative plur. of =luu=, _bone_, with affix of 1st pers.
sing.]
[Note 498: 2nd sing. imperf. of =peittää=, _to hide_.]
[Note 499: Illative sing. (p. 156) of =santa=, _sand_.]
[Note 500: Nom. sing. _rose_, object of =ota= (p. 128).]
[Note 501: Illative of 3rd infin. of =kasvaa=, _to grow_ (p. 192).]
[Note 502: Adv. _then_ (p. 117).]
[Note 503: Compound of =kesä=, _summer_, and =ilta=, _evening_, instr.
plur. (p. 161, iii).]
[Note 504: Elative sing. of =väli=, _interval_; here adverbial, _now and
then_.]
[Note 505: 3rd sing. pres. of =kukostaa=, _to flower_, from =kukka=, _a
flower_ (p. 114).]
[Note 506: Genitive sing. with affix of 1st pers.; from =rakkaus= (stem
=rakkaute=), _love_.]
[Note 507: Accusative sing. of =kuva=, _picture_.]
[Note 508: Illative sing. of =esi=, with affix of 2nd pers. (p. 146).]
[Note 509: = =muodostaa=, =v= being a dialectical variant for =d=; 3rd
sing. pres. (with future signif.) of =muodostaa=, deriv. verb from
=muoto=, _form_.]
[Note 510: Nominative sing. (p. 134, v), _friend_; Lönnrot suggests it is
for =ysättävä=, derived from =yskä=, _bosom_.]
[Note 511: Illative of 3rd infin.; cf. No. 484.]
[Note 512: Negative pres. of =auttaa=, _to help_ or _avail_.]