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WHEN NORWAY WOULD NOT HELP 81
No anxious shadows clouding,
No languid, lukewarm mist
Our heaven of mem’ries shrouding,
This eve of battle-tryst!
May, as of yore, while ringing
The bells unseen loud swelled,
Come leaders vict’ry bringing,
Whom th’ army ne’er beheld.
WHEN NORWAY WOULD NOT HELP
(EASTER EVE, 1864)
Wuen Kattegat now or the Belt you sail,
No more will you sight
The Danish proud frigate, no more will you hail
The red and white;
No more will the ringing command be heard
In Wessel’s tongue,
No rollicking music, no jocund word,
’Neath Dannebrog sung.
No dance will you see, no laughter meet,
As the white sails shine,
From mast and from stern no garland you greet,
Of arts the sign.
But all that we owned of the treasures on board
The deeps now hold;
One sad winter night to the sea-waves were poured
Our memories old.
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