| Narrated:
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| «There it is,"Moominmamma murmured. «That's where we’re going to live and lead
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| a wonderful and troublesome life.»
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| «What did you say?"asked Moomintroll.
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| «That is where we’re going to live,"repeated Moominmamma.
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| «That is Pappa’s island. |
| Pappa is going to look after us.»
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| Peaceful is the ocean, careful in the motion.
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| A scent of salt and seaweed and of sand.
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| The nature of the sea, the ebbing flooding dream,
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| Wave after wave — this moment will prevail.
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| Then suddenly some gulls rise from the point.
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| The heather shows the weather.
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| Still, the risky seasong takes you to the deeper waters.
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| No sails has been seen to pass in four long dreary years. |
| In any case,
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| the lighthouse keeper is gone. |
| A tiny rocky island, a waiting eerie silence —
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| the lighthouse seems a lonely place to be. |
| The lighthouse seems the only place
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| to be for the family, to see for the family in the crystal ball.
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| Now they miss the seasong.
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| (The seasong takes them to the furthest island)
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| Seems everybody’s in a hurry. |
| So wouldn’t it be nice to set off worried!
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| Worse things happen, happen at sea. |
| Now is the moment to be listening to the
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| seasong
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| The boat was lying tied-up, bobbing up and down, upholding it’s good name: «The Adventure». |
| Pattering on the jetty, the sun was in the setting.
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| Moominpappa knew he had the course. |
| He held the rudder tightly in his paws.
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| The heather shows the weather and the risky seasong takes you out on deeper
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| waters.
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| Worse things Happen, happy weather, now is the moment to be listening to the
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| seasong
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| Ride on the swells, the white-flecked spindrift. |
| Riding the waves,
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| the cold spray flying. |
| Wind, snapping sails, the call of sea birds.
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| Listen friend! |
| Can you hear the… was that a mermaid calling your name?
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| Wasn’t that a crate of good strong whisky? |
| Was all that piracy good living?
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| Weigh anchor! |
| Set the sails for… anywhere!
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| Message in a bottle:
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| «Come sail the seas, go fishing with me!
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| Come sail to sea, go fishing with me!»
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| Of course, you may think your ships are sturdy. |