Hail, lovely sun!

Praise you for rising!

Praise you for dawning! Yesterday

We shivered in darkness while you

Were trapped in the mountains.

Now you rise light as a silver bird.

Always rise like this, goddess,

Always come back to us like this,

Bringing us health and safety,

Bringing the game to our arrows,

The fish to our fishhooks. Journey

Now in peace, go around the Earth

In safety, travel in joy, oh goddess!

-from the Finnish Kalevala