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I	A
Tri colored flag and pure	B
Thou art our hard fought cause secure	B
Thor's hammer mark of might	C
Thou bearest blue in Christian white	C
And all our hearts' red blood	D
To thee streams its full flood	D
	-
Thou liftest us high when life's sternest	E
Exultant thou oceanward turnest	E
Thy colors of freedom are earnest	E
That spirit and body shall never know dearth	F
Fare forth o'er the earth	F
	-
II	A
'The pure flag is but pure folly '	-
You 'wise' men maintain for true	G
But the flag is the truth poetic	H
The folly is found in you	G
In poetry upward soaring	I
The nation's immortal soul	J
With hands invisible carries	K
The flag toward the future goal	J
That soul's every toil and trial	L
That soul's every triumph sublime	M
Are sounding in songs immortal	L
To their music the flag beats time	M
We bear it along surrounded	E
By mem'ry's melodious choir	N
By mild and whispering voices	O
By will and stormy desire	N
It gives not to others guidance	P
Can not a Swedish word say	Q
It never can flaunt allurement	E
Clear the foreign colors away	Q
	-
III	A
The sins and deceits of our nation	R
Possess in the flag no right	E
The flag is the high ideal	S
In honor's immortal light	E
The best of our past achievements	T
The best of our present prayers	U
It takes in its folds from the fathers	V
And bears to the sons and heirs	U
Bears it all pure and artless	U
By tokens that tempt us unmarred	E
Is for our will's young manhood	E
Leader as well as guard	E
	-
IV	-
They say 'As by rings of betrothal	S
We are by the flag affied '	-
But Norway is	U
not	E
betroth d	E
She	E
is	U
no one's promised bride	E
She shares her abode with no one	R
Her bed and her board to none yields	U
Her will is her worthy bridegroom	W
Herself rules her sea her fields	U
Our brother to eastward honors	U
This independence of youth	X
	-
He	E
knows well that by it only	E
Our wreath can be won in truth	X
When we from the flag are taking	I
His colors	U
he	E
knows 't is no whim	Y
But merely because we are holding	I
Our honor higher than him	Y
And none who himself has honor	N
Will seek him a different friend	E
Our life we can for him offer	N
But naught of our flag can lend	E
	-
V	E
TO SWEDEN	R
Respectful I seek a hearing	I
With trust in your temper sane	Z
And plead now our cause before you	G
In words that are calm and plain	Z
	-
If Sweden	R
you	G
were the smaller	N
Were young your freedom's renown	A2
Had	E
your	B2
flag a mark of union	R
That pressed you still farther down	A2
By saying that you as little	S
Were set at the greater's board	E
For this is the mark's real meaning	I
By no one on earth ignored	E
Yes if it were you and your freedom	C2
Not hallowed by age but young	D2
And a century's want and weakness	U
Still heavy in memory hung	D2
The soul of your nation harrowed	E
By old injustice and need	E
By luckless labor and longing	I
And did you its meaning heed	E
Yes if it were you whose duty	E
To teach your people were tried	E
To honor their new born freedom	C2
To find in their flag their guide	E
Would longer you suffer it sundered	E
Leave foreign a single field	E
Would you not claim it unplundered	E
Your independence to shield	E
Would not to yourself you say then	E2
'If one has high lineage long	F2
If greater his colors' glory	E
The more alluring his song	F2
Oh tempt not him who from trouble	S
Is rising with new found might	E
With pure marks direct him rather	N
To honor's exalted height '	-
	-
Thus	U
you	G
would speak elder hero	G2
If	-
you	G
in	-
our	N
home abode	E
Your wont is the way of honor	N
You fare on the forward road	E
From eighteen hundred and fourteen	H2
And down to the latest day	E
So oft for our independence	U
We stood like the stag at bay	E
Brave men have risen among you	G
And scorning the strife that swelled	E
Have talked for our cause high minded	E
Like Torgny to them of eld	E
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VI	-
ANSWER TO THE AGED RIDDERSTAD	E
	-
You say it is 'knightly duty '	-
The fight for the flag to share	I2
I hold you full high in honor	N
But	E
that	E
is our own affair	I2
For just because we encounter	N
The storm blasts of slander stark	J2
It's 'knightly duty' to free now	K2
The flag from the marring mark	J2
The 'parity' that mark preaches	U
Flies false over all the seas	U
A pan Scandinavian Sweden	R
Can never our nation please	U
From 'knightly duty' the smaller	N
Must say I am not a part	E
The mark of my freedom and honor	N
Is whole for my mind and heart	E
From 'knightly duty' the greater	N
Must say A falsehood's fair sign	L2
Can give me no special honor	N
No longer shall it be mine	L2
For both it is 'knightly duty '	-
With flags that are pure to be	E
A warring world's bright example	S
Of peoples at peace proud and free	E

Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson

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