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Ne'er in former times my father, Never has my aged father Yielded to a sorcerer's orders, Or the wiles of Lapland's children. Thus my father spoke aforetime, And I now repeat his sayings: 'Guard me, O thou kind Creator, Guard me, Jumala most gracious, Aid me with thy hand of mercy, With thy mighty power protect me, 470 From the plots of men of evil, And the thoughts of aged women, And the curses of the bearded, And the curses of the beardless. Grant us now thy aid eternal, Be our ever-faithful guardian, That no child be taken from us, And no mother's child shall wander From the path of the Creator, Which by Jumala was fashioned.'