Audience and the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers

Performed in English

Finland, behold, the daylight now is dawning,
The threat of night has now been driv’n away.
The skylark calls across the light of morning,
The blue of heaven is offering its ray,
Night’s darkest pow’r the daylight now is scorning:
The morning dawns on Finland, yours and mine.

Finland, arise, and strive to reach the highest
With all thy strength and mighty memory.
Finland, arise; and see what thou descriest:
For you have cast off years of slavery,
No longer ’neath oppression’s yoke thou liest.
Morning has come, O Finland, yours and mine.
—translated by Keith Bosley and Philip Brunelle