HAAVEILIJA
Kirj.
Pekka Ervast
Tekijän kustannuksella, Kirjapainoyhtiö Valo, Mikkeli, 1902.
The shades of night were falling fast
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device
Excelsior!
His brow was sad; his eye beneath,
Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath,
And like a silver clarion rung
The accents of that unknown tongue
Excelsior!
Henry W. Longfellow.