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(1915) Author: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Translator: Arthur Hubbell Palmer With: Arthur Hubbell Palmer
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NORWEGIAN SEAMEN’S SONG

Saint Olaf’s Cross’s praise

Would on that pilot fitly blaze

Who saved a hundred men,

And hundred once again.

To many a boy so young,

Who riding home to boat’s keel clung,
His father set on board,

We honor should accord.

In Norway’s mountain-coast

Our land’s own mother-breast we boast,
With food for us and tears

For sons whom danger nears.

In it each deed has lot,

And there no brave son is forgot,

From Hafurfjord’s great day

To the last castaway.

This each one felt and found

Who homeward came and looked around;

This each one felt who went,

In the last look he sent.

They felt the ocean o’er:

Their ships our country’s fortune bore;
Honor and power it sought, —

And these the white sails brought.

Hurrah for them to-day
Who the Norwegian flag display!

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