<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351400" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Post festum</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A man in coat of ice arrayed<br>Stood up once by the Arctic Ocean;<br>The whole earth shook with proud emotion<br>And honor to the giant paid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A king came, to him climbing up,<br>An Order in his one hand bearing:<br>'Who great become, this sign are wearing.'<br>-The growling giant said but 'Stop!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The frightened king fell down again,<br>Began to weep with features ashen:<br>'My Order is in this rude fashion<br>Refused by just the greatest men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'My dear man, take it, 't is but fit,<br>Of your king's honor be the warder;<br>On your breast greater grows the Order,<br>And we who bear it, too, by it.'-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Arctic giant was too good,-<br>A foible oft ascribed to giants,<br>Who foolish trust in little clients,-<br>He took it,-while we mocking stood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But all the kings crept to him then,<br>And each his Order brought, to know it<br>Thereby renewed and greater, so it<br>Gave rank to needy noblemen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Honi soit<br>… and all the rest;<br>Soon Orders covered all his breast.<br>But oh! they greater grew no tittle,<br>And he grew so confounded little.</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=351400" data-title="Post festum de Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson" data-description="A man in coat of ice arrayed Stood up once by the Arctic Ocean; The whole earth shook with proud emotion And honor to the giant paid. A king came, to him climbing up, An Order in his one hand bearing: 'Who great become, this sign are wearing.' -T..."></div> </div> </div>

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