Editing Máj (section)

===First canto===
The poem opens with a description of the lake and the night sky on the evening of 1 May; everything speaks of love—the [[Streptopelia|turtle-dove]], whose call ends Cantos 1, 3, and 4; the silent moss; and the [[nightingale]]. Jarmila awaits her lover anxiously under an [[oak]] tree, but instead is met by a boatman, a man she knows and presumably a member of Vilém's gang of robbers, who tells her that her lover is to be executed and curses her for having caused his death. The turtledove, closing the canto, cries "Jarmila! Jarmila!! Jarmila!!!"