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(1917) Author: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Translator: William Morton Payne With: William Morton Payne
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IN THE CAMP 75

“Ay, for each that I turn away,
Two men grow in each one of ours.”
“‘Mightest thou three thousand turn away,”
Answered Finn,
“For we stand sorely in need of szx.”

Just then the brothers turned them around:
‘< Now have we both given thought to the matter,
May we not battle, just as we are,
Battle with thee,
Then thy offered baptism will we accept.

“But thou thyself must go bail for it, chieftain,
We do not know what it may do to us,
Thou who knowest, must take it upon thee.”

“That will I indeed,”
Answered them the King, and smiled.

Cheerfully all of the others laughed,

Alone the bishop rose, and, serious,

Went with the two the way they had come,
The army past,

Deep into the woods where were their men.

Fire after fire now was quenched:

One alone where the forest thickened
Blazed up brightly down by the stream,
The sun uprising

Mingled its rays, the light embraced.

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