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CANTATA FOR N.F.S.GRUNDTVIG 167
FROM THE CANTATA FOR
N. F.S. GRUNDTVIG
(1872)
His day was the greatest the Northland has seen,
It one was with the midnight-sun’s wonders serene:
The light wherein he sat was the light of God’s true peace,
And that has never morning, nor night when it must cease.
In light of God’s peace shone the Aistory he gave,
The spirit’s course on earth that shall conquer the grave.
In light of God’s pure peace thus our fathers’ mighty way
Before us for example and warning open lay.
In light of God’s peace he beheld with watchful eye
The people at their work and the spirit’s strivings high.
In light of God’s pure peace he would have all learning
glow,
And where his word is honored the “ Folk-High-Schools”’
must grow.
In light of God’s peace stood ’mid sorrow and care
For Denmark’s folk his comfort, a castle strong and fair;
In light of God’s pure peace there shall once again be won
And thousand-fold increased, what seems lost now and
undone.
In light of God’s peace stands his patriarch-worth,
‘The sum and the amen of a manful life on earth.
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