<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351339" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At A Banquet Given To The Deputation Of The Swedish Riksdag To The Coronation, In Trondhjem, July 17</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You chosen men we welcome here<br>From brothers near.<br>We welcome you to Olaf's town<br>That Norway's greatest mem'ries crown,<br>Where ancient prowess looking down<br>With searching gaze,<br>The question puts to sea and strand:<br>Are men now in the Northern land<br>Like yesterday's?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'T is well, if on the battlefield<br>Our 'Yes' is sealed!<br>'T is well, if now our strength is steeled<br>To grasp our fathers' sword and shield<br>And in life's warfare lift and wield<br>For God and home!<br>For us they fought; 't is now our call<br>To raise for them a temple-hall,<br>Fair freedom's dome.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">List to the Northern spirit o'er<br>Our sea and shore!<br>Here once high thoughts in word were freed,<br>In homely song, in homely deed;<br>And ever shall the selfsame need<br>That spirit sing:<br>Heed not things trivial, foreign, new;<br>Alone th' eternal, Northern, true<br>Can harvest bring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O brother-band, this faith so dear<br>Has brought us here?<br>The spirit of the North to free,<br>Our common toil and prayer shall be,<br>Those greater days again to see,-<br>As once before,<br>Of home and trust a message strong<br>To send the warring world we long<br>Forevermore.</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351339" data-title="At A Banquet Given To The Deputation Of The Swedish Riksdag To The Coronation, In Trondhjem, July 17 de Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson" data-description="You chosen men we welcome here From brothers near. We welcome you to Olaf's town That Norway's greatest mem'ries crown, Where ancient prowess looking down With searching gaze, The question puts to sea and strand: Are men now in the Northern land L..."></div> </div> </div>

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