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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351387" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Oh, when will you stand forth?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, when will you stand forth, who with strength can bring aid,<br>To strike down the injustice and lies<br>That my house have beset, and with malice blockade<br>Every pathway I out for my powers have laid,<br>And would hidden means find<br>With deceit and with hate<br>To set watch on my mind<br>And defile every plate<br>In my beautiful home where defenseless we wait?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, when will you stand forth? This detraction through years<br>For my people has made me an oaf,<br>Hides my poetry's fount in the fog of its fleers,<br>So it merely a pool of self-worship appears;<br>Like a clumsy troll I<br>Am contemned with affront,<br>Whom all 'cultured' folk fly,<br>Or yet gather to hunt,<br>That their hunger of hate at a feast they may blunt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I publish a book: 'It is half like himself;'<br>If I speak, 't is for vanity's sake.<br>What I build in the stage-world of fancy's free elf<br>Is but formed from my fatuous self.<br>When for faith I contend<br>And our land's ancient ways,<br>When the bridge I defend<br>From our fathers' great days,<br>'Tis because my poor breast no king's 'Order' displays.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, when will you stand forth, who shall sunder in twain<br>All this slander so stifling and foul,<br>And shall sink in the sea all the terror insane<br>That they have of heart-passion and will-wielding brain,-<br>And with love shall enfold<br>A soul's faith wide and deep,<br>That in want and in cold<br>Would its morning-watch keep<br>Undismayed, till the light all the host shall ensweep?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come, thou Spirit of Norway, God-given of yore<br>In the stout giant-conquering Thor!<br>While the lightning thou ridest, thy answer's loud roar<br>Drowns the din that the dwarfs in defiance outpour;<br>Thou canst waken with might<br>All our longings to soar,<br>Thou canst strengthen in right<br>What united we swore,<br>When at Hafur thy standard in honor we bore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hail, thou Spirit of Norway! To think but of thee<br>Makes so small all the small things I felt.<br>To thy coming I hallow me, wholly to thee,<br>And I humbly look up to thy face, unto thee,<br>And I pray for a song<br>With thy tongue's stirring sound,<br>That I true may and strong<br>In the crisis be found,<br>To rouse heroes for thee on our forefathers' ground.</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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To strike down the injustice and lies
That my house have beset, and with malice blockade
Every pathway I out for my powers have laid,
And would hidden means find
With deceit and with ..."></div>
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