Lesia Ukrainka, Lisova Pisnya (1911, The Forest Song). Mavka.
Mavka is a forest empress and a personification of beauty and defencelessness of nature and the beauty of the inner world of a human. She decides to become a human and marry a boy she loves but she realizes that she is not created for an ordinary life with everyday hard work and she feels disappointed because that boy chooses to marry another girl. So she turns into a tree and believes that her love is eternal now.
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