With a mother's tears Lyrics

She hung her ribbons on the aspen

Left her gold-cross on the sea-shore

On the cold rocks her silken robes

On the grass her shoes of deer-skin

She left in the sand her shining necklace

On the pier her rings and jewels

In the wild waves, lovely Aino

Sleeps on the bottom of the blue-sea

There to be the sister of the whiting

There to be the friend of the salmon

Sadly weeps the ancient mother

From her blue-eyes bitter tear-drops

As in sad and wailing measures

Broken-hearted she remembers

Thus at last the maiden vanished

Thus the lovely Aino perished

In the wild waves, lovely Aino,

Sleeps on the bottom of the blue-sea

There to be the sister of the whiting

There to be the friend of the salmon