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GOOD CHEER
To think that foes I’m facing.
So in return some friendship give
To one who for the cause would live,
With love the North embracing !—
But first my poet-path shall be
With veneration unto thee,
Who fill’st the North with wonder;
In wrath thou dawn didst prophesy
Behind the North’s dark morning-sky,
That lightnings shook and thunder.
Then, milder, thou, by sea and slope,
The fount of saga, faith, and hope
Mad’st flow for every peasant ;—
Now from the snow-years’ mountain-side
Thou seest with time’s returning tide
Thine own high image present.
To thee, then, in whose spring of song
Finland’s “the thousand lakes” belong
And sound their thrilling sorrow: —
Our Northern soul forever heard
Keeps watch and ward in poet’s word
’Gainst Eastern millions’ morrow.
But when I stand in our own home,
One greets me from the starry dome
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