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

Six and fifty the ships are there,

Sails are let down, toward Denmark stare

Sun-reddened men;—then murmur:
««Where is the great Long Serpent?

Cometh never Olaf Trygvason?”

When the sun in the second dawn
Cloudward rising no mast had drawn,
Grew to a storm their clamor:
“Where is the great Long Serpent?
Cometh never Olaf Trygvason?”

’ Silent, silent that moment bound,
Stood they all; for from ocean’s ground
Sighed round the fleet a muffled:

“Taken the great Long Serpent,

Fallen is Olaf Trygvason.”

Ever since, through so many a year,

Norway’s ships must beside them hear,

Clearest in nights of moonshine:
“Taken the great Long Serpent,

Fallen is Olaf Trygvason.”

A SIGH

Evenrne sunshine never

Solace to my window bears,

Morning sunshine elsewhere fares; —
Here are shadows ever.

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