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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351336" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Answer From Norway To The Speeches In The Swedish House Of Nobles, 1860</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have you heard what says the Swede now,<br>Young Norwegian man?<br>Have you seen what forms proceed now,<br>Border-watch to plan?<br>Shades of those from life departed,<br>Our forefathers single-hearted,<br>Who, when words like these were said,<br>Mounted guard and knew no dread.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Says the Swede now: That our cherished<br>Norseland's banner red,<br>That which flew when Magnus perished,<br>As to-day outspread,<br>Which o'er Fredrikshald victorious<br>And o'er Adler waved all glorious,<br>That the Swedish yellow-blue<br>Must in shame henceforth eschew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Says the Swede now: Lost their luster<br>Have our memories,<br>Brighter honors shall we muster,<br>If we borrow his.<br>Bids us forth to Lützen stumble,<br>Close this straw-thatched cottage humble,<br>Drag our grandsire's ancient seat<br>To the Swedes for honor meet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let it stand, that poor old lumber,<br>To us dear for aye;<br>Sweden's ground it could but cumber,<br>And it might not pay.<br>For, we know from history's pages,<br>Some sat there in former ages,<br>Sverre Priest and other men,<br>Who may wish to come again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Says the Swede now: We must know it,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He<br>our freedom gave,<br>But the Swedish sword can mow it,<br>Send it to its grave.<br>Yet the case is not alarming,<br>He must fare with good fore-arming,<br>For in truth some fell of yore,<br>There where he would break a door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Says the Swede now: We a clever<br>Little boy remain,<br>Very suitable to ever<br>Hold his mantle's train.<br>But would Christie be so pliant,<br>With his comrades self-reliant,<br>If they still at Eidsvold stood,<br>Sword-girt, building Norway's good?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Big words oft the Swede was saying,<br>Only small were we,<br>But they never much were weighing,<br>When the test should be.<br>On the little cutter sailing,<br>Wessel and Norse youth prevailing,<br>Sweden's flag and frigate chased<br>From the Kattegat in haste.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweden's noblemen are shaking<br>Charles the Twelfth's proud hat;<br>We, in council or war-making,<br>Peers are for all that.<br>If things take the worse turn in there,<br>Aid from Torgny we shall win there.<br>Then o'er all the Northland's skies<br>Greater freedom's sun shall rise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bj%C3%B8rnstjerne+Bj%C3%B8rnson">Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson</a><div class=q>
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Young Norwegian man?
Have you seen what forms proceed now,
Border-watch to plan?
Shades of those from life departed,
Our forefathers single-hearted,
Who, when words like these were said,
Mounted guard and kn..."></div>
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