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

No one has seen what was first,—and the latest
None shall behold.
Laws underlie,

Order the all they maintain.
Need and supply

Bring one another; our bane

Boots to the general gain.

Eternity’s offspring and germ are we all now.
Thoughts have their true

Roots in our race’s first morning; they fall now,
Query and clue,
Freighted with seed

Into eternity’s soil;
Joy be your meed,

That your brief life’s fleeting toil

Fruit for eternity bears.

Join in the joy of all life, every being,
Brief bloom of its spring!

Honor th’ eternal, our human lot freeing
From fetters that cling!
Adding your mite,

With the eternal unite!
Though you decay,

Breathe as a moment you may,

Air of eternity’s day!

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