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Lehtimaja is a 1946 poetry collection by Finnish poet and translator Aale Tynni.
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Lehtimaja is a 1946 poetry collection by Finnish poet and translator Aale Tynni.
"I'm still young, and I awake rejoicing,
as amazing morning shines at my window.
My heart is pounding with happy loving
Oh my land, I love the look of you so."
(from 'Summer Morning,' in Lehtimaja, 1946)
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