Our Language Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEEF BGBGGDGGGF GBGBCDCEEF BBHBGDGGGF IEIECDCEEF IEIEGDGGGF| Thou who sailest Norse mountain air | A |
| And Denmark's songs by the cradle singest | B |
| Who badest in Hald the war flames flare | A |
| And heard in our children's joy gently ringest | B |
| Thou treasure of treasures | C |
| Our mother tongue | D |
| In pains as in pleasures | C |
| Our home and our tower | E |
| With God our power | E |
| We hallow thee | F |
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| Whispering secrets that Holberg stored | B |
| Thou borest him home to a brighter morning | G |
| Didst serve him with armor and whet his sword | B |
| For satire's assaults and for laughter's warning | G |
| Thou spirit all knowing | G |
| Our mother tongue | D |
| The ages foregoing | G |
| The future now growing | G |
| The present glowing | G |
| We hallow thee | F |
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| Kierkegaard thou to the deeps didst bring | G |
| Where life's full currents in God he sounded | B |
| For Wergeland wert thou the eagle's wing | G |
| That lifted him sunward to heights unbounded | B |
| Thou treasure of treasures | C |
| Our mother tongue | D |
| In pain as in pleasures | C |
| Our home and our tower | E |
| With God our power | E |
| We hallow thee | F |
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| Radiant warmth of a May day | B |
| Thou to the spring of our freedom gavest | B |
| In thy clearness our Norse flags aye | H |
| With song and honor afar thou wavest | B |
| Thou spirit all knowing | G |
| Our mother tongue | D |
| The ages foregoing | G |
| The future now growing | G |
| The present glowing | G |
| We hallow thee | F |
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| O'er the ocean unrollest thou | I |
| Thy carpet of flowers a bridge that nigher | E |
| Can bring dear friends to meet even now | I |
| While faith grows greater and heaven higher | E |
| Thou treasure of treasures | C |
| Our mother tongue | D |
| In pain as in pleasures | C |
| Our home and our tower | E |
| With God our power | E |
| We hallow thee | F |
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| Best of friends that I found wert thou | I |
| Thou waitedst for me in the eyes of mother | E |
| And leave me last of them all wilt thou | I |
| Who knewest me better than any other | E |
| Thou spirit all knowing | G |
| Our mother tongue | D |
| The ages foregoing | G |
| The future now growing | G |
| The present glowing | G |
| We hallow thee | F |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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