Maamme

Maamme (Finnish) or Vårt land (Swedish), meaning Our land, is the title of Finland's de facto national anthem.

Our Land

(translation by Clement Burbank Shaw)

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:Our land, our land, our fatherland,

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:Sound loud, O name of worth!

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:No mount that meets the heaven's band,

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:No hidden vale, no wavewashed strand,

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:Is loved, as is our native North,

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:Our own forefathers' earth.

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:Thy blossom, in the bud laid low,

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:Yet ripened shall upspring.

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:See! From our love once more shall grow

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:Thy light, thy joy, thy hope, thy glow!

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:And clearer yet one day shall ring

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:The song our land shall sing.

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