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When now my song selects and praises	A
Your forceful name think not it raises	A
The rallying flag for battle near	B
The street fight shall not reach us here	C
If sacred poetry's fair hill	D
Lies open to assassination	E
Is	-
this	F
the newer revelation	E
Then I withdraw and hold me still	D
Then I the words of Einar borrow	G
When southern change of kings brought sorrow	G
And Harald's hosts their ravage spread	H
I follow rather Magnus dead	H
Than Harald living thus and then	I
I sail away with ships and men	I
Nor therefore do I lift anew	J
The flag of song just now for you	J
Because my spirit's deepest yearning	K
To you for new light now is turning	K
No where the	L
greatest	M
questions started	N
Just there it is our ways were parted	N
From where the deepest thought can reach	O
To plan and goal of daily speech	O
My childhood's faith unshaken stands	P
And thence our equal rights deriving	K
I for a people free am striving	K
And brotherhood in kindred lands	P
Though both of us are	Q
Christian	E
men	I
So wide a gulf between us lies	R
Though both are true	J
Norwegian	E
men	I
We Norway see with different eyes	R
If but to day we victory gain	S
We must to morrow fight amain	S
But now I honor you in singing	K
Because what ought just now to be	T
With strongest will you clearly see	T
And foremost to the fight are springing	K
When sinks the land 'neath heavy fogs	U
And no fair prospect cheers the eye	V
The thickening air our breathing clogs	W
Yes all things dull in torpor lie	V
	-
Then	S
mounts your mind with freest motion	S
Its thunder wings the mist banks driving	K
Its lightning talons cloud walls riving	K
Till sunlight spreads o'er land and ocean	S
	-
You	J
are the freshening shower clean	S
Upon our sluggish day's routine	S
You are the salt sea current poured	X
Into each close and sultry fjord	X
Your speech a mine shaft is deep going	K
To where the veins of ore are showing	K
And by your flashing eyes far sighted	N
The past is for our future lighted	N
So long as Sverre's sword you wield	Y
So long as you our hosts are heading	K
We know we'll win on every field	Y
Foes flee your battle trumpet dreading	K
We see their struggling ranks soon rifted	Y
We see them set so many a snare	Z
Your head unharmed in thought's pure air	Z
Above the waves of war is lifted	Y
We love you for this courage good	Y
That e'er	A2
before	B2
the banner stood	Y
We love the strength you boldly stored	Y
In your self forged and tempered sword	Y
Your vigilance we love and prize	R
That sickness slander loss defies	R
We love you that at duty's call	C2
You gave your peace your future all	C2
We love you still hate cannot cleave	D2
Because you dared in us believe	D2
How can they hope that backward here	C
Our land shall go No year by year	B
Forward in freedom and in song	K
Forward the truly Norse disclosing	K
What might can now avail opposing	K
The travail of the centuries long	K
People and power no more divided	Y
In peace to save or war to kill	D
Our freedom with	E2
one	S
guard provided	Y
	-
One	S
nation only and	Y
one	S
will	D
The spirit of our nation's morn	S
The unity of free gods dreaming	K
And all things great to be great deeming	K
Forever must the spurious scorn	S
The spirit that impelled the viking	K
'Gainst kingly power for freedom striking	K
That threatened sailed to Iceland strong	K
With hero fame and hero song	K
And further on through all the ages	A
That spirit never dwells in cages	-
The spirit that at Hj rung broke	K
For thousand years the foreign yoke	K
By might of king ne'er made to cower	A2
Defying e'en the papal power	A2
The spirit that to weakness worn	S
Held free our soil with rights unshorn	S
Held free with tongue and hand combined	Y
'Gainst foreign host and foreign mind	Y
By which our Holberg's wit was whetted	Y
And Wessel's sword and Wessel's pen	S
And to whose silent forge indebted	Y
The thoughts that armed our Eidsvold men	S
The spirit that in faith so high	V
Through Odin could to God draw nigh	V
As bridge the myth of Balder threw	J
And almost found the free way new	J
To truth's fair home in radiant Gimle	D
When this was closed and warded grimly	D
By monkish lies and papal speech	O
That threw a second bridge to reach	O
On freedom's lightly soaring arches	A
To heights whereon the free soul marches	-
So when for Luther blood was shed	Y
The North but razed a fence instead	Y
The spirit that when men were deeming	K
True faith in all the world were dead	Y
Brun Hauge and their lineage spread	Y
From soul springs in our nation streaming	K
Though pietism's fog now thickens	F2
Still guards the altar lights and quickens	F2
Can	S
this	F
they make the fashion better	A2
By modern bishop synod's letter	A2
Is	-
this	F
by politics provided	Y
When into 'Chambers' 't is divided	Y
Can	S
this	F
into a box be juggled	Y
And o'er the boundary be smuggled	Y
	-
And that just now when beacons lighted	Y
On all the mountain tops are sighted	Y
And when our folk high school's young day	Y
The Norse heart kindles with its ray	Y
Renewing mem'ries courage bringing	K
While they are hearing trusting singing	K
Just when the deep in billows surges	A
Responsive to the tempest's might	Y
And over it the Northern Light	Y
Of Youth's refulgent hope emerges	-
Just when the spirit everywhere	Z
While walls lie low as trumpets blare	Z
Is breaking from the ancient forms	G2
And will of youth the heights now storms	G2
	-
A battle age and we are in it	Y
The greatest thing on earth to be	D
Where powers that are bursting free	D
Self shaping seek their place and win it	Y
Our fusing passion all to give	H2
To cast the statue that shall live	I2
To press the mold of our own form	J2
On what shall be the future's norm	J2
Into the age's soul thus breathed	Y
The spirit God to us bequeathed	Y
	-
'T was this that now I wished to say	Y
To you who late and early aye	V
Within time's workshop great are going	K
What is what shall be ever knowing	K
To you who all our people's might	Y
Have roused for freedom new to fight	Y
To whom our people gave this power	A2
And sorrow its eternal dower	K2

Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson

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