<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351343" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bergen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As thou sittest there<br>Skerry-bound and fair,<br>Mountains high around and ocean's deep before thee,<br>On thee casts her spell</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Saga<br>, that shall tell<br>Once again the wonders of our land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Honor is thy due,<br>'Bergen never new,'<br>Ancient and unaging as thy Holberg's humor;<br>Once kings sought thine aid,-<br>Mighty now in trade,-<br>First to fly the flag of liberty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oft in proud array,<br>As a sunshine-day<br>Breaks forth from thy rain and fog wind-driven,<br>Thou didst come with men<br>Or great deeds again,<br>When the clouds were darkest o'er our land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy soul was the ground,<br>Wit-enriched and sound,<br>Whence there sprang stout thoughts to make our country's harvest,<br>Whence our arts exist,<br>In their birth-hour kissed<br>By thy nature, somber, large, and strong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In thy mountain-hall<br>Learned our painter, <br>Dahl<br>;<br>Wand'ring on thy strands our poet dreamed, <br>Welhaven<br>;<br>All thy morning's gold</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ole Bull<br>ensouled,<br>Greeted on thy bay by all the world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With thy sea-wide sway<br>Thou hast might for aye,<br>Fjords of blue convey thy life-blood through our country.<br>Norway's spirit thou<br>Dost with joy endow,-<br>Great thy past, no less thy future great.</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=351343" data-title="Bergen de Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson" data-description="As thou sittest there Skerry-bound and fair, Mountains high around and ocean's deep before thee, On thee casts her spell Saga , that shall tell Once again the wonders of our land. Honor is thy due, 'Bergen never new,' Ancient and unaging as thy ..."></div> </div> </div>

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