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(1917) Author: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Translator: William Morton Payne With: William Morton Payne
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THE KING’S PRAYER 79

New generations
Better shall build it.

Be Thou not angered that many but follow for my sake.

Faith crave the many, but faith have only in what they
can see.

Scan not too closely!

Some strive for riches, others for fame or vengeance,

Many for me, only few understanding wherefore.

But for the few who would do Thy will,

Forgive the others;

Accept our cause, and in failure raise it to victory!

For all of my sins hitherto,

Hot-blooded, hard, lusting for power,

Forsake us not on the morrow,

Overlook them, my God, or hide them, till past is the
hour,

Let me not on the morrow stand in Thy way!

Lord, Thou knowest our folk to its innermost being;
Judge I awrong, when I trust in its noble endowment?
Hitherto has it wasted its strength.

Lord, have mercy! When shall it waken in strength united ?
When shall my work have fruition?

Violent hewed I my path; but my thought was:
Sharp must the blows be that fall on the forest primeval,

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