bright eyes - sunrise and sunset

i've found my offical new year's resolution!
i'm going to get in touch with my ancestry. i've never taken much interest in finnish culture before, but lately i've been wondering. i did a quick search on wikipedia and (why was i surprised? it makes complete sense) i found a whole bunch of information on finnish paganism. they had bird statues to hold the soul in your body while you slept. their crude wood carvings remind me of tiki gods.
i want to read the Kalevala.
don't worry, i won't tackle learning finnish. twelve verb tenses? hell no, i says.
if you've got $3 to spend, check this out. Wary Tales! i've got this unhealthy fascination with online art/comics... but anyway, one of the stories includes a very creepy poem, not sure where it's from, but i don't think the artist made it up...
Three youths a'walkin' in the wood
To do their youthful limbs some good
did see an aweful sight.
Three bags o' bones in rags they found
A crawlin' up from 'neath the ground
into the dusky light.
"Come closer, lads," the bones did say,
"It's many years now since the day
when we once stood your height--"
"And soon enough your bones'll be
A walkin' naked just like we
and picked a pretty white."
The lads they up and left the place,
a'bounding at a mighty pace,
into the happy night.
But though they very swiftly fled,
Today each lad is lonesome dead-
for bones are always right!