Surmatun säkkeet [English translation]

The heart was blacker than charcoal,

A dark gaze in the eyes

Plague mangled every wretch,1

Gout afflicted the legs

There's a smell of death around

The air is thick with flies

Worms crawl along the skin,

Pus ran from the hands

Turn back from the karsikko2, placeless soul!

Your place isn't on earth

Return to the graveyard's rest!

You can't wander here anymore

Vipers slithered around the feet

The ground was black with snakes,

There the saw-patterned vipers hissed

Whispered temptations in the ear:

"Leave behind the underworld, step in the house of the living!

Let them taste revenge, the judgement of your icy hands!"

A flame of revenge burned the mind,

Eyes blazed with rage

The endless well of hate

Burned like a snake's poison

1. Or "every limb".2. Karsikko means a tree which is marked with a deceased person's name and date of death, for example. Trees used to be marked for the dead buried nearby and meant to keep them away from the living. If a soul wandered away from its burial place, it would realize it's dead when seeing its karsikko tree. The tree also pointed back towards the churchyard.