Tähdet varjelkoon [English translation]

Long have I been walking...

May stars watch over me...

The wolf wastes its time

Even before the beginning

Of the morning, and like a string of pearls shines the dew

The trail lacks not a traveller

But like kings

I feel as the stars above point to the south

The crowded ordinary day won't suit me anyway

Why should it, that way my days would end in dismay

Long have I been walking

The ways of the stars

And may the stars watch over me

When the wind smells of death

Long have I been walking

The ways of the stars

And may the stars watch over me

When the wind smells of death

Again the willow on the shore

Weeps for the rainy Sunday

Although for nothing here we starve under black sorrow

You see, the stars are for us

Like sleep for the weary

Or oblivion for the lost ones who got lost in life

No, though the ordinary life asks

I won't hop onto its carriage, but walk with seven league boots

Long have I been walking...

May stars watch over me...

Long have I been walking

The ways of the stars

And may the stars watch over me

When the wind smells of death

Long have I been walking

The ways of the stars

And may the stars watch over me

When the wind smells of death, smells of death