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POEMS AND SONGS
We love you still—hate cannot cleave! —
Because you dared in us believe.
How can they hope that backward here
Our land shall go? No, year by year,
Forward in freedom and in song,
Forward the truly Norse disclosing.
What might can now avail, opposing
The travail of the centuries long?
People and power no more divided;
In peace to save or war to kill,
Our freedom with one guard provided,
One nation only and one will.
The spirit of our nation’s morn,
The unity of free gods dreaming,
And all things great to be great deeming,
Forever must the spurious scorn.
The spirit that impelled the viking
*Gainst kingly power for freedom striking, —
That, threatened, sailed to Iceland strong
With hero-fame and hero-song,
And further on through all the ages, —
That spirit never dwells in cages.
The spirit that at Hjérung broke
For thousand years the foreign yoke,
By might of king ne’er made to cower,
Defying e’en the papal power,—
The spirit that, to weakness worn,
Held free our soil with rights unshorn,
——
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