<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351373" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lector thaasen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I read once of a flower that lonely grew,<br>Apart, with trembling stem and pale of hue;<br>The mountain-world of cold and strife<br>Gave little life<br>And less of color.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A botanist the flower chanced to see<br>And glad exclaimed: Oh, this must sheltered be,<br>Must seed produce, renewing birth,<br>In sun-warmed earth<br>Become a thousand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But as he dug and drew it from the ground,<br>Strange glitterings upon his hands he found;<br>For to its roots clung dust of golden hue;<br>The flower grew<br>On golden treasure!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And from the region wide came all the youth<br>To see the wonder; they divined the truth:<br>Here lay their country's future might;<br>A ray of light<br>From God that flower!-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This I recall now even while I mourn;<br>The Lord of life has lifted him and borne<br>From mountain-cold and wintry air<br>To fruitage fair<br>In warmth eternal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For where the roots were of that life replete,<br>What gleams and glitters! See, they ran to meet<br>The shafts of wisdom's goodly mines,<br>The gold that shines<br>In veins of God's thought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now he is lifted up, to light are brought<br>The riches he to guard so faithful sought.<br>The treasures of our past are there,<br>And glintings rare<br>Of future riches.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come, Norway's youth! Unearth to use the hoard<br>That round this heaven-borne flower's roots was stored!<br>To you his message! Hear and heed!<br>Achieve in deed<br>His dream and longing!</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=351373" data-title="Lector thaasen de Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson" data-description="I read once of a flower that lonely grew, Apart, with trembling stem and pale of hue; The mountain-world of cold and strife Gave little life And less of color. A botanist the flower chanced to see And glad exclaimed: Oh, this must sheltered be, M..."></div> </div> </div>

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