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THE PURE NORWEGIAN FLAG
Would not to yourself you say then:
“If one has high lineage long,
If greater his colors’ glory,
The more alluring his song.
Oh, tempt not him who from trouble
Is rising with new found might;
With pure marks direct him, rather,
To honor’s exalted height.”
Thus you would speak, elder hero,
If you in our home abode;
Your wont is the way of honor,
You fare on the forward road.
From eighteen hundred and fourteen,
And down to the latest day,
So oft for our independence
We stood like the stag at bay,
Brave men have risen among you,
And scorning the strife that swelled,
Have talked for our cause high-minded,
Like Torgny to them of eld.
VI
ANSWER TO THE AGED RIDDERSTAD
You say, it is “knightly duty,”
The fight for the flag to share, —
I hold you full high in honor,
But—+that is our own affair!
For just because we encounter
The storm-blasts of slander stark,
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