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76 SVENSK DIKTNING
sitter vid lästen och den som sitter vid statsstyret, vid
svarvstolen eller på lärostolen, vid plogen eller lyran,” the
quotation conveying the incongruous idea of “sitting at the
plow,” as at the shoemaker’s bench or the turning lathe.
62. Herren vill jag lova calls for a sharp distinction
between lova (praise) and lova (promise).
ÖDMJUKER ER!
1. Ödmjuker; the alternative form in -er (2nd person pl.,
imperative) is peculiar to solemn rhetorical style. Cf. lines
13, 15, 32.
2. himlens rand, usually the borizon, here has a vague
and undefinable poetic meaning.
K. V. A. STRANDBERG.
BARRIKADER.
14. på sistone, archaic form of på det sista; modern style,
till sist, at length.
MANING.
2. harar, the common metaphor to designate cowardice.
6. The red color indicating the liberalist party whose
cause the poet pleaded.
9. Karlars blod, the blood of the Swedish kings of that
name.
MITT DÖDA BARN.
12. karl; the rhyme here calls for the popular
pronunciation, with the I! mute.
44. Allusion to an ancient Greek custom. Thanatos,
death, was represented as a human figure with a torch
reversed.
’TACK FÖR GOD VAKT!
This poem, written shortly before his death, was the poet’s
farewell to life. The title is characteristic, being a
traditional form of greeting when guards were dismissed from
duty and replaced by others.
9. Georg Stiernhielm (1598—1672), philologist and poet,
was the foremost Swedish savant of his time. His noted
place among Swedish poets was won through priority rather
than by any. great creative genius. Hakvin Spegel (1645
—L1714), archbishop of Sweden, was a noted religious poet,
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