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

You won your victory supreme

Through rock-like faith and will’s full stream;
While with unnumbered hours of rest

Your love has others blessed.

- Were all now here from west and east

Whose hearts you own, oh, what a feast!
From Akershus the convicts e’en
Would bear a freeman’s mien.

Now we whose lives with good you filled
For you to-day a palace build,

On heights of heart’s-ease lifting square
Its golden tower of prayer.

In peace you oft shall dwell in it,
Whene’er you need to rest a bit,

And feel through them who hold you dear
Yourself to heaven near. é i“

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Long since our country to you gave
The meed of thanks that most you crave;
It gave a maid with golden hair, h

Saas

Its springtime’s image fair.

She came from where the fairies dwell,
With nixie’s charm and wood-nymph’s spell,
With peace all holy, sweet, and calm,

To sing of life the psalm. |

So may your life yet long endure ¢
To light our land, your home secure!

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