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48 POEMS AND SONGS
TO A GODSON
(1861)
(With an album containing portraits of all those who at the time of his birth were
leaders in the intellectual and political world.)
Herz hast thou before thee that constellation
Whereunder was born thy light;
These stars in the vault of high thoughts’ mutation
Will fashion thy life with might.
Their prophecy, little one, we cannot know,
They light up the way that, unknown, thou shalt go
And kindle the thoughts that within shall glow.
Thou first shalt them gather,
Then choose thine own,—
So canst thou the rather _
Grope on alone.
BERGLIOT
(Harald Haardraade’s saga, towards the end of Chapter 45, reads thus: When
Einar Tambarskelve’s wife Bergliot, who had remained behind in her lodgings
in the town, learned of the death of her husband and of her son, she went straight
to the royal residence, where the armed force of peasants was, and eagerly urged
them to fight. But in that very moment the King (Harald) rowed out along the
river. Then said Bergliot: “Now miss we here my kinsman, Haakon Ivarson;
never should Einar’s murderer row out along the river, if Haakon stood here on
the river-bank.”)
(In her lodgings)
To-pay King Harald
Must hold his ting-peace;
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