Jan 8, 2025
Kanteletar is a book of Finnish folk songs & poems, it has many breathtakingly beautifully written pieces about love, sex, emotions, losses... The following piece is one of them, it screams #Wangxian to me: "Should my treasure come my darling step by I’d know him by his coming recognise him by his step though he were still a mile off or two miles away. As mist I’d go out as smoke I would reach the yard as sparks I woud speed as flame I would fly; I’d bowl along beside him pout before his face. I would touch his hand though a snake were in his palm I would kiss his mouth though doom stared him in the face I’d climb on his neck though death were on his neck bones I’d stretch beside him though his side were all bloody."