Pavo took her hand in his, and answered:
“Woman, woman! ’tis but sent to try us,
If we will have pity on the sufferer.
Mix thou bark with corn even as aforetime,
Frosts have killed the harvest of our neighbor.”
Translation of Mrs. Howitt. Johann Ludwig Runeberg.
COUNTRY LIFE.
FROM THE GERMAN.
Happy the man who has the town escaped!
To him the whistling trees, the murmuring brooks,