From his hole so wet and drenching

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when through the greyish net of clouds | first gleam of day was seen | and at the lake the lapping waves | woke up with joyous mean | the pike rose to the spruce's crone | to take a bite at reddish cone | Aaro Hellaakoski, "The Pike's Song," (1927), Leevi Lehto (transl.), in: Leevi Lehto. Leevi Lehto. Finnish poetry: then and now, January 2005. Published online at upenn.edu. Accessed 20-03-2013

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