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o ashes. Mischief now he saw approaching, O'er his head ill days were brooding, 310 So began to build a vessel, And a new boat to construct him. Wood was failing to the craftsman, Boards with which a boat to fashion, But he found of wood a little, Begged some wretched bits of boarding, Five small splinters of a spindle, And six fragments of a bobbin. So from these a boat he fashioned, And a new boat he constructed, 320 By his magic art he made it, With his secret knowledge made it, Hammered once, one side he fashioned, Hammered twice, called up the other, Hammered then a third time only, And the boat was quite completed. Then he pushed the boat in water, On the waves he launched the vessel, And he spoke the words which follow, And expressed himself in thiswise: 330 "Float like bladder on the water, On the waves like water-lily. Eagle, give me now three feathers, Eagle, three, and two from raven, For the wretched boat's protection, For the wretched vessel's bulwarks." Then he stepped upon the planking, At the stern he took his station, Head bowed down, in deep depression, And his cap awry adjusted, 340 Since by night he dare not tarry, Nor by day could linger longer, For the island-maidens' pleasure, Sporting with unbraided damsels. Spoke the lively Lemminkainen, Said the handsome Kaukomieli: "Now the youth must take departure, And must travel from these dwellings, Joyless leave behind these damsels, Dance no longer with the fair ones. 350 Surely when I have departed, And have left this land behind me, Never will rejoice these damsels, Nor unbraided girls be jesting, In their homes so full of sadness, In the courtyards now so dreary." Wept the island girls already, Damsels at the cape lamented: "Wherefore goest thou, Lemminkainen, And departest, hero-bridegroom? 360 Dost thou go for maidens' coyness, Or for scarcity of women?" Spoke the lively Lemminkainen, Said the handsome Kaukomieli, "'Tis not for the maidens' coyness, Nor the scarcity of women. I have had a hundred women, And embraced a thousand maidens; Thus departeth Lemminkainen, Quits you thus your h
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