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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351367" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ivar Ingemundson's Lay</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wherefore have I longings,<br>When to live them strength is lacking?<br>And wherefore see I,<br>If I see but sorrow?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Flight of my eye to the great and distant<br>Dooms it to gales of darkening doubt;<br>But fleeing backward to the present,<br>It's prisoned in pain and pity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I see a land with no leader,<br>I see a leader with no land.<br>The land how heavy-laden<br>The leader how high his longing!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Might the men but know it,<br>That he is here among them!<br>But they see a man in fetters,<br>And leave him to lie there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Round the ship a storm is raging,<br>At the rudder stands a fool. Who can save it?<br>He, who below the deck is longing,<br>Half-dead and in fetters.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Looking upward)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hear how they call Thee<br>And come with arms uplifted!<br>They have their savior at hand,<br>And Thou sayest it never?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall they, then, all thus perish,<br>Because the one seems absent?<br>Wilt Thou not let the fool die,<br>That life may endure in many?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What means that solemn saying:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One<br>shall suffer for many?<br>But many suffer for one.<br>Oh, what means it?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wisdom Thou gavest<br>Wearies me with guesswork.<br>The light Thou hast dealt me<br>Leads me to darkness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not me alone, moreover,<br>But millions and millions!<br>Space unending spans not all the questions<br>From earth here and up toward heaven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weakness cowers in walls of cloisters,<br>But wills of power press onward,<br>And thronging, with longing,<br>They thrust one another out of the lands.-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whither? Before their eyes is night,<br>'In Nazareth a light is set!' one says aloud,<br>A hundred thousand say it;<br>All see it now: To Nazareth!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the half-part perish from hunger by the wayside,<br>The other half by the sword of the heathen,<br>The pest awaits the pilgrim in Nazareth,-<br>Wast Thou there, or wast Thou not there?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, where art Thou?<br>The whole world now awakens,<br>And on the way is searching<br>And seeking after Thee!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or wast Thou in the hunger?<br>Wast Thou in the pest?<br>Wast Thou in the sword of the heathen?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Saltest Thou with the salt of wrath?<br>Refinest Thou with suffering's fire?<br>Hast Thou millions of millions hidden in Thy future,<br>Whom Thou thus wilt save to freedom?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, to them are the thousands that now suffer<br>But <br>one<br>,<br>And that one I would beseech Thee for-<br>Nothing!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I follow a little brook<br>And find it leads to an ocean,<br>I see here a little drop,<br>And swelling in mist it mounts a mighty cloud.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">See, how I'm tossed so will-less<br>By troublous waves of doubt,<br>The wind overturned my little boat,<br>The wreck is all my refuge.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lead me, lead me,<br>I see nowhere land!<br>Lift me, lift me,<br>I nowhere footing find!</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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When to live them strength is lacking?
And wherefore see I,
If I see but sorrow?

Flight of my eye to the great and distant
Dooms it to gales of darkening doubt;
But fleeing backward to the present,
It's prisoned in pain..."></div>
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