02188cam a22002893u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000310011324500280014426400510017230000470022333600260027033700260029633800360032250000310035850800450038952013020043453400840173665300350182085600430185578093UtSlPG20260610134817.0mcr n260607r20261907utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7afi2iso639-1 4aPH1 aMantere, Niilo,d1870-195410aKotikuusta kuunnellessa 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-03-02  aJuhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen  aKotikuusta kuunnellessa by Niilo Mantere is a collection of poems written in the early 20th century. The verses weave patriotic feeling, Christian devotion, nature praise, and social activism—especially temperance—often voiced as public odes and addresses. They also turn inward to celebrate home, love, and family, with a tone that ranges from rousing and ceremonial to tender and prayerful.

The opening of the collection moves from an ode to a steadfast “home spruce” into civic and patriotic pieces: a prologue honoring J. V. Snellman as the awakener of the Finnish nation, calls to students and teachers to serve light and learning, and powerful temperance poems that lament alcohol’s harms and rally for prohibition. It welcomes freedom as a new spring, praises Finnish landscapes (Puijo, a beloved lake), and exhorts youth to unite for the common good. The sequence then shifts to the domestic sphere with love lyrics to a spouse, a lullaby for a child, and a birthday verse, before offering reflective and devotional poems on autumn and spring, a child’s grave, mortality tempered by hope, the swift passage of time, human smallness and eternal worth, children’s evening and morning prayers, and a Christmas hymn of the Nativity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cHelsinki: Suomalainen Kustannus-Osakeyhtiö Kansa, 1907  aFinnish poetry -- 20th century40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78093