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(1915) Author: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Translator: Arthur Hubbell Palmer With: Arthur Hubbell Palmer
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AT A BANQUET 175

The question puts to sea and strand:
Are men now in the Northern land

Like yesterday’s?

’’T is well, if on the battlefield

Our “Yes” is sealed!
’T is well, if now our strength is steeled
To grasp our fathers’ sword and shield
And in life’s warfare lift and wield

For God and home!
For us they fought; ’t is now our call
To raise for them a temple-hall,

Fair freedom’s dome.

List to the Northern spirit o’er

Our sea and shore!
Here once high thoughts in word were freed,
In homely song, in homely deed;
And ever shall the selfsame need

That spirit sing:
Heed not things trivial, foreign, new;
Alone th’ eternal, Northern, true

Can harvest bring.

O brother-band, this faith so dear
Has brought us here?

The spirit of the North to free,

Our common toil and prayer shall be,

Those greater days again to see,—
As once before,

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