<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351383" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Norse nature</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(In Ringerike During The Student Meeting Of 1869)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We wander and sing with glee<br>Of glorious Norway, fair to see.<br>Let sweetly the tones go twining<br>In colors so softly shining<br>On mountain, forest, fjord, and shore,<br>'Neath heaven's azure arching o'er.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The warmth of the nation's heart,<br>The depth, the strength, its songs impart,<br>Here opens its eyes to greet you,<br>Rejoicing just now to meet you,<br>And giving, grateful for the chance,<br>In love a self-revealing glance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here wakened our history first,<br>Here Halfdan dreamed of greatness erst,<br>In vision of hope beholding<br>The kingdom's future unfolding,<br>And <br>Nore<br>stood and summons gave,<br>While forth to conquest called the wave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here singing we must unroll<br>Of our dear land the pictured scroll!<br>Let calm turn to storm of wildness,<br>Bring might into bonds of mildness:<br>Then Norsemen mustering, each shall see<br>This is our land's whole history.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To them first our way we wing,<br>The hundred harbors in the spring,<br>Where follow fond love and yearning,<br>When sea-ward the ships are turning.<br>For Norway's weal pure prayers exhale<br>From sixty thousand men that sail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">See sloping the skerried coasts,<br>With gulls and whales and fishing-posts,<br>And vessels in shelter riding,<br>While boats o'er the sea are gliding,<br>And nets in fjord and seines in sound,<br>And white with spawn the ocean's ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">See Lofoten's tumult grand,<br>Where tow'ring cliffs in ocean stand,<br>Whose summits the fogs are cleaving,<br>Beneath them the surges heaving,<br>And all is darkness, mystery, dread,<br>But 'mid the tumult sails are spread.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here ships of the Arctic sea;<br>Through snow and gloom their course must be;<br>Commands from the masthead falling<br>The boats toward the ice are calling;<br>And shot on shot and seal on seal,<br>And souls and bodies strong as steel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On mountains we now shall guest,<br>When eventide to all brings rest,<br>In dairy on highland meadow,<br>On hay-field 'neath slanting shadow,<br>While to the alphorn's tender tone<br>Great Nature's voice responds alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But quickly we must away,<br>If a11 the land we would survey,-<br>The mines of our metal treasures,<br>The hills of our hunters' pleasures,<br>The foam-white river's rush and noise,<br>The timber-driver's foot-sure poise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Returning, we linger here,<br>These valleys broad to us are dear,<br>Whose men in their faithful living<br>To Norway are honor giving;<br>Their fathers, strong in brain and brawn,<br>Lent luster to our morning-dawn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We wander and sing with glee<br>Of glorious Norway fair to see.<br>Our present to labor binds us,<br>Each how of the past reminds us,<br>Our future shall be sure and bright,<br>As God we trust and do the right.</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=351383" data-title="Norse nature de Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson" data-description="(In Ringerike During The Student Meeting Of 1869) We wander and sing with glee Of glorious Norway, fair to see. Let sweetly the tones go twining In colors so softly shining On mountain, forest, fjord, and shore, 'Neath heaven's azure arching o'er..."></div> </div> </div>

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