When wild geese honk on Walpurgis night
who thinks then of going to rest?
With dew-beaded hat you roam out of sight
through fjordland and woods newly dressed.
Way out there gleams so mighty a star
that all of my eye it now fills;
Im sure that same star I once saw afar
when I gazed oer my childhood hills.
And the peewits cry is borne on the wind,
though longings borne farther away.
How bitterly close ones heart is confined
when the avocet migrates in May!
Theres trickling in grass and cheeping in moss,
the tree-tops twitch out of their slumber;
from the farthermost cape the scent wafts across
of anemones countless in number.
The lonely young lamb on the hill far beyond
can be heard with its plaintive small baa,
and the frogs all croak from puddle and pond,
as if star now were singing to star.
