Lector Thaasen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC DDEEF GGAAC HHIIC JJKKL MMNNO OOKKP QQRRS| I read once of a flower that lonely grew | A |
| Apart with trembling stem and pale of hue | A |
| The mountain world of cold and strife | B |
| Gave little life | B |
| And less of color | C |
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| A botanist the flower chanced to see | D |
| And glad exclaimed Oh this must sheltered be | D |
| Must seed produce renewing birth | E |
| In sun warmed earth | E |
| Become a thousand | F |
| - | |
| But as he dug and drew it from the ground | G |
| Strange glitterings upon his hands he found | G |
| For to its roots clung dust of golden hue | A |
| The flower grew | A |
| On golden treasure | C |
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| And from the region wide came all the youth | H |
| To see the wonder they divined the truth | H |
| Here lay their country's future might | I |
| A ray of light | I |
| From God that flower | C |
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| This I recall now even while I mourn | J |
| The Lord of life has lifted him and borne | J |
| From mountain cold and wintry air | K |
| To fruitage fair | K |
| In warmth eternal | L |
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| For where the roots were of that life replete | M |
| What gleams and glitters See they ran to meet | M |
| The shafts of wisdom's goodly mines | N |
| The gold that shines | N |
| In veins of God's thought | O |
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| Now he is lifted up to light are brought | O |
| The riches he to guard so faithful sought | O |
| The treasures of our past are there | K |
| And glintings rare | K |
| Of future riches | P |
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| Come Norway's youth Unearth to use the hoard | Q |
| That round this heaven borne flower's roots was stored | Q |
| To you his message Hear and heed | R |
| Achieve in deed | R |
| His dream and longing | S |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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