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THE PURE NORWEGIAN FLAG
In one beauty, higher, clearer, —
Heaven itself to earth is sinking.
But in this great hour of trysting
Life is opened, its course brightened,
Growth eternal calls, enlisting
Every spirit-power heightened.
THE PURE NORWEGIAN FLAG*
I
Tri-cororep flag, and pure,
Thou art our hard-fought cause secure;
Thor’s hammer-mark of might
Thou bearest blue in Christian white,
And all our hearts’ red blood
To thee streams its full flood.
Thou liftest us high when life ’s sternest,
Exultant, thou oceanward turnest;
Thy colors of freedom are earnest
That spirit and body shall never know
dearth. —
Fare forth o’er the earth!
II
“The pure flag is but pure folly,”
You “wise”? men maintain for true.
* That is, without the mark of union with Sweden,
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