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218 POEMS AND SONGS
Greatest power you know
—And most dangerous, lo!—
Will you this then possess?
Yes.
MAY SEVENTEENTH
(1883 )
Wenrceranp’s statue on May seventeenth
Saw the procession. And as its rear-guard,
Slow marching masses,
Strong men, and women with flower-decked presence,
Come now the peasants, come now the peasants.
Osterdal’s forest’s magnificent chieftain
Bore the old banner. Soon as we see it
Blood-red uplifted,
Greet it the thousands in thought of its story:
That is our glory, that is our glory!
Never that lion bore crown that was foreign,
Never that cloth was by Dannebrog cloven.
I saw the future,
When with that banner by Wergeland’s column
Peasants stood solemn, peasants stood solemn.
Most of our loss in the times that have vanished,
Most of our victories, most of our longing,
Most that is vital:
hte bens eae ee ee
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