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POEMS AND SONGS
Whence our arts exist,
In their birth-hour kissed
By thy nature, somber, large, and strong,
In thy mountain-hall
Learned our painter, Dah/;
Wand’ring on thy strands our poet dreamed, We/-
haven;
All thy morning’s gold
Ole Bull ensouled, ;
Greeted on thy bay by all the world.
With thy sea-wide sway
Thou hast might for aye,
Fjords of blue convey thy life-blood through our
country.
Norway’s spirit thou
Dost with joy endow,—
Great thy past, no less thy future great.
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P. A. MUNCH
(1863)
Many forms belong to greatness.
He who now has left us bore it
As a doubt that made him sleepless,
But at last gave revelation,—
As a sight-enhancing power,
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