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

Songs from the past of the past’s longings telling,
Pensive and sad cast a sunset’s red glow;
Present time’s longings in sweet music dwelling,
Grateful the soul of the future shall know.
Youth of all ages in song here are meeting,
Sounding in tone and in word their desire;
— More than we think, from the dead bringing
greeting,
Gather to-night in our festival choir.

ON THE DEATH OF N.F.S. GRUNDTVIG
(1872)

E’en as the Sibyl in Northland-dawn drew
Forth from the myth-billows gliding,

Told all the past, all the future so true,
Sank with the lands’ last subsiding, —

Prophecies leaving, eternally new,
Still abiding:

Thus goes his spirit the Northland before,—
Though, that he sank, we have tiding,—
Visions unfolding like sun-clouds, when o’er
Sea-circled lands they are riding,

Northern lands’ future, till time is no more,

Ever guiding.

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