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

They hung over benches, ’gainst the walls they were
lying,

In each window sat two, one the edge was just trying

Of his new-sharpened knife on an ink-spattered desk.

Through two large open rooms what a spectacle gro-
tesque!

At one end, half in dreams, Aasmund Olavsen Vinje’s
Long figure and spare, a contemplative genius;

Thin and intense, with the color of gypsum,

And a coal-black, preposterous beard, Henrik Ibsen.
I, the youngest of the lot, had to wait for company
Till a new litter came in, after Yule Jonas Lie.

But the “‘boss” who ruled there with his logical rod,
“Old Heltberg” himself, was of all the most odd!

In his jacket of dog’s skin and fur-boots stout

He waged a hard war with his asthma and gout.

No fur-cap could hide from us his forehead imperious,
His classical features, his eye’s power mysterious.
Now erect in his might and now bowed by his pain,

Strong thoughts he threw out, and he threw not in vain.

If the suffering grew keener and again it was faced

By the will in his soul, and his body he braced

Against onset after onset, then his eyes were flaming

And his hands were clenched hard, as if deep were his
shaming

That he seemed to have yielded! Oh, then we were
sharing

Amazed all the grandeur of conflict, and bearing

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