ESTKONIA'N POETRY. 



Neido kargas kafikulle \ 

 Virtus vimaks nahtud ?ieido 9 

 Harjus anded jaggarud, 

 Peides pea fuggenud, 

 Viljandes on vihhellud* 



Very well, very well, thou bridegroom ! 

 Who bid thee come with company ? 

 Couldft thou not have come in private ? 

 The bride heard the bagpipes blow ** 

 She fled into the alder bufhes 5 

 She fprartg into the poplar woods, 

 In Vierland we faw her laft, 

 In 'Harrien fhe gives her gifts J f, 

 With white beads her head was dreffed, 

 Delicately was fhe attired. 



How naive ! — " Who bid thee come with company ? 

 i6r Couldft thou not have come in private ?" — Now thou 

 mayfi: go and feek her, traverfe the whole country. 

 Run over all Vierland, fpeed through all Harrien (two 

 circles of Efthonia). In Harrien her nuptial prefents 

 are already diftributed : fhe has already another bride- 

 groom. And how was fhe dreffed ?— As gaily as the 

 people of the city ; with white beads her head-drefs 

 was adorned. In city-manners did fne appear, per- 

 fumed with liquid odours.— Every thing is combined 

 that could render his ardent paffion ftill more ardent. 



* The bridegroom approaches with mufic. 

 f The nuptial prefects given by the bride, 



