Yksinäinen saarnipuu [English translation]

In the middle of the open sea

There's an islet at the mercy of waves

Not even a bird would make its nest there

The waves hit over the rock

How on earth did it put down roots there

A lonely ash tree

Into a place, where able to succeed

was nothing else living

(How on earth

did it put down roots there

A lonely ash tree)

A lonely ash tree

But from somewhere had the wind brought

The seed of the ash tree there

Wonder why has nature this aberration created

On top of an empty rock

It is soil, into which implant

A human would not be able

Guess that's why one should not uproot

No thing from there

As the wind carried the seed

It took a small one, but the strongest

Gave it the soil most desolate

Believing the tree would root down

On a God-given mission most vital

A lonely ash tree

Waiting for a moment, when the waterside woods

From death awaken

As long as the wind the information to the islet brings

This consummation occurs

Then a seed to accompany it is given

By that lonely ash tree

• Artist:Juha Vainio