Perhonen [English translation]

I saw a butterfly in the autumn night

When I was walking home

So beautiful, small, white

It was still alive

Like a summer's fairy

Had come to fall's greyness

Fluttering so very quietly

It stayed in the shade of the trees

Do you know it, butterfly,

That it's winter soon

And frost will wrap the regions

In the cold net of ice

You didn't settle for dying

With the masses

But you wanted to see the land of winter

So purely white

You wanted to leave this place

Only with freezing wings

When the last wingstroke, trembling,

Hits the gates of cold

Once again in an autumn night

Those fallen off leaves rot

And all of the summer's swallows

Have left from here

Only the butterfly flies alone

It can sometimes be seen

It brought the last breath of summer

To the small park's shadow

Do you know it, butterfly,

That it's winter soon

And frost will wrap the regions

In the cold net of ice

You didn't settle for dying

With the masses

But you wanted to see the land of winter

So purely white

You wanted to leave this place

Only with freezing wings

When the last wingstroke, trembling,

Hits the gates of cold