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100 1 _aMantere, Niilo,
_d1870-1954
245 1 0 _aValkea maa
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-05-10
508 _aJuhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen
520 _a"Valkea maa" by Niilo Mantere is a collection of poems written in the early 20th century. The work is a fervently patriotic and devout cycle that celebrates Finland’s newfound freedom and the White victory in civil strife, mourns and honors the fallen, and salutes the Jaegers and allies. It then widens into meditations on law, conscience, humanity, nature, love, and Christian hope. Expect public odes alongside intimate nature lyrics and moral reflections voiced by an ardent, prayerful speaker. The opening of the collection moves from triumphant national hymns to elegy and exhortation: it proclaims a “white land” of freedom, sings to a free Finland and its singers, laments the Red uprising, vows defense of law and fatherland, and rallies the White Guard. It mourns blood “roses” on the snow, addresses fallen fathers and departing heroes, praises the Karelian commander Aarne Sihvo, salutes German forces and the returning Jaegers, commemorates a slain fighter, and rejoices as the lion flag rises over Suomenlinna; it also thanks the press and calls for unity and industrious youth, love of the mother tongue, and welcomes sons back from the War of Liberation. The next pieces turn inward to human dignity, sorrow giving way to morning joy, starlit guidance, a defense of just resistance alongside an unsparing portrait of war’s horror, a scathing satire of mammon, and a poor man’s wry address to his purse. Early in the nature-and-heart section, the voice soothes a restless heart, contrasts tame and wild freedom (geese), hears Lapland’s lonely bird, catalogs the many tones of the human voice, longs for spring winds and rain, exults in spring’s arrival, confesses a life shaped by trial, and yearns to see both the Acropolis and the “Galilean prophet.” (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHämeenlinna: Arvi A. Karisto Osakeyhtiö, 1918
653 _aFinnish poetry -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78649
999 _c119367
_d119367