<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>May seventeenth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wergeland's statue on May seventeenth<br>Saw the procession. And as its rear-guard,<br>Slow marching masses,<br>Strong men, and women with flower-decked presence;<br>Come now the peasants, come now the peasants.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Österdal's forest's magnificent chieftain<br>Bore the old banner. Soon as we see it<br>Blood-red uplifted,<br>Greet it the thousands in thought of its story:<br>That is our glory, that is our glory!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never that lion bore crown that was foreign,<br>Never that cloth was by Dannebrog cloven.<br>I saw the <br>future<br>,<br>When with that banner by Wergeland's column<br>Peasants stood solemn, peasants stood solemn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Most of our loss in the times that have vanished,<br>Most of our victories, most of our longing,<br>Most that is vital:<br>Deeds of the past and the future's bold daring<br>Peasants are bearing, peasants are bearing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sorely they suffered for sins once committed,<br>But they arise now. Here in the Storting<br>Stalwart they prove it,<br>All, as they come from our land's every region,<br>Peasants Norwegian, peasants Norwegian.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hold what they won, with a will to go farther;<br>Whole we must have independence and honor!<br>All of us know it:<br>Wergeland's summer bears soon its best flower,-<br>Power in peasants, peasants in power.</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=351379" data-title="May seventeenth de Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson" data-description="Wergeland's statue on May seventeenth Saw the procession. And as its rear-guard, Slow marching masses, Strong men, and women with flower-decked presence; Come now the peasants, come now the peasants. Österdal's forest's magnificent chieftain Bor..."></div> </div> </div>

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