02107cam a22002893u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000320011324500130014526400510015830000470020933600260025633700260028233800360030850000310034450800180037552012770039353400690167065300350173985600430177477160UtSlPG20260610134804.0mcr n260607r20251912utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7afi2iso639-1 4aPH1 aAaltonen, Hilja,d1885-196510aSyksyä 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-10-31  aTuula Temonen  aSyksyä by Hilja Aaltonen is a collection of lyric poems written in the early 20th century. The book dwells on autumn and its echoes in rural life, intertwining longing, faith, love, and loss as a solitary voice weighs the pull of home against the call of the wider world.

Across four parts, the speaker first lingers in harvested fields, bogs, and barns, hearing cranes overhead and watching migrants depart while she dreams of city lights and a larger life. The mood shifts to wandering and hardship: nights at strangers’ doors, a prisoner’s brief dream of freedom, remorseful prayers, fragile hopes, and a sudden, sanctified joy in impending motherhood, before a tentative spring brightens the gloom. Love then arrives as a consuming gaze—ecstasy, betrayal, forgiveness—and culminates in a shepherd girl’s songs that cradle absent heroes and say secret farewells. The closing poems turn to memory and conscience: a lilac keeps confidences, a mother’s moral legacy lies shattered, rivers swell with storm-blood, and Sorrow and Night are addressed as stern companions. Even amid orphanhood, disappointment, and withered blossoms, the voice chooses endurance: to rise or be broken, but above all to keep singing. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cHelsinki: Yrjö Weilin & Kumpp. Oy, 1912  aFinnish poetry -- 20th century40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77160