2020.08.14.
Enter, Lucia, enter
In darken lands a light is shining1 -Lucia is coming in the night.
The snow lays white over grounds and houses,
the forest is thaw-black and heavy its murmur,
the star stands brilliant in night-black water.
Enter, Lucia, enter, enter with your light and your gifts!
We wish to hide them meekly in our minds as a sprout is wrapped by a seed,
until the sun of spring starts to shine.
- 1. This is a paraphrase of Isaiah 9:2, in the Swedish translation of the Bible from 1542. In the KJV, this line would be something along the lines of 'A great light shines in the land of the shadow of death'