To Sculptor Borch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEE FFGGBBHH IIJJKKKK LLKKKKMN KKBBKKOO PPBBQQRS TTPPKKKK| On his fiftieth birthday | A |
| With friends you stalwart stand and fair | B |
| To day of fifty years the heir | B |
| The past your works rejoicing praise | C |
| But forward goes your gaze | C |
| Your childlike faith your spirit true | D |
| Your hand that never weary grew | D |
| A home's sweet music love of wife | E |
| Make ever young your life | E |
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| You dared believe with heart alive | F |
| That here in Norway art can thrive | F |
| You forced the hardness of our stones | G |
| To harmony of tones | G |
| You laid our wild world's secrets bare | B |
| And caught 'The Hunter' near the lair | B |
| Our nation's moods of beauty born | H |
| Your 'Girl with Eggs' adorn | H |
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| As o'er a slope's snow covered brow | I |
| A youth came swiftly flying now | I |
| You saw him raised your hand and lo | J |
| He stood there chiseled snow | J |
| But your 'Ski runner's' courage good | K |
| It was your own when forth you stood | K |
| Art's champion by the world unawed | K |
| And with your faith in God | K |
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| You won your victory supreme | L |
| Through rock like faith and will's full stream | L |
| While with unnumbered hours of rest | K |
| Your love has others blessed | K |
| Were all now here from west and east | K |
| Whose hearts you own oh what a feast | K |
| From Akershus the convicts e'en | M |
| Would bear a freeman's mien | N |
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| Now we whose lives with good you filled | K |
| For you to day a palace build | K |
| On heights of heart's ease lifting square | B |
| Its golden tower of prayer | B |
| In peace you oft shall dwell in it | K |
| Whene'er you need to rest a bit | K |
| And feel through them who hold you dear | O |
| Yourself to heaven near | O |
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| Long since our country to you gave | P |
| The meed of thanks that most you crave | P |
| It gave a maid with golden hair | B |
| Its springtime's image fair | B |
| She came from where the fairies dwell | Q |
| With nixie's charm and wood nymph's spell | Q |
| With peace all holy sweet and calm | R |
| To sing of life the psalm | S |
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| So may your life yet long endure | T |
| To light our gland your home secure | T |
| May all that from your heart you gave | P |
| Still blossom on your grave | P |
| May God's protecting mercy hold | K |
| Your spirit ever fresh and bold | K |
| May He to genius oft impart | K |
| Just such a mind and heart | K |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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