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(1915) Author: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Translator: Arthur Hubbell Palmer With: Arthur Hubbell Palmer
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64. POEMS AND SONGS

Upward thy gaze turned all wistful to view it,
As wouldst thou pursue it.

Eyes that so clear saw the wonderful vision

Looked far away beyond earth’s indecision.

Snow-white unfolded the pinions that later
Bore thee to the greater.

Speaking or asking thou broughtest me sorrow;

Eyes thine and words thine seemed wanting to borrow

Clearness more pure and thoughts, victory gaining
Beyond my attaining.

When thou wert dancing in all a child’s lightness,

Shaking thy locks like a fountain in brightness,

Laughing till heaven was opened in gladness
Over thy gladness, —

Or when affliction in sternness had spoken,

So that thy heart in that moment seemed broken,

Far from thy thoughts in thy suffering riven
Were both earth and heaven,—

Then, oh, I saw then: thy joy and thy grieving

Ever the bounds of the mortal were cleaving.

All seems so little where silent we ponder, —
But room they have yonder.

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