Already Karelian trees spring leaves
and Karelian birches are bristling
I hear the cukoo and it's spring
oh, how i miss Karelia

I feel your hills and mountainbelts
the wildfires and dreamy nights
and the dark premival forests
and your inlets and fjords,

There i used to wander
thru the forests and fields
I stood on top of hillsides
and saw the beautiful Karelia before me

(from here we got the original finnish being sung http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXNytk1rXo8 )
Hail forest hail the hillside
Hail the king of the forest
This is your son, young and able
stepping forth, full of strenght
like a strong wind from the fell

I'd be a son of forest,
hero of the ancient sprucewood
On the fields of Tapiola
I wrestle bears
and forget the rest of the world.

Lovely is the peace here,
brave is the battle
I hear the storm and the forest
and the fire from the sky
As the spruce falls

translation and full finnish text from: http://forum.starwreck.com/viewtopi.....php?t=2294&;