<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351412" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Synnove's Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have thanks for all from our childhood's day,<br> Our play together in woodland roaming.<br>I thought that play would go on for aye,<br> Though life should pass to its gloaming.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thought that play would go on for aye,<br> From bowers leading of leafy birches<br>To where the Solbakke houses lay,<br> And where the red-painted church is.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sat and waited through evenings long<br> And scanned the ridge with the spruces yonder;<br>But darkening mountains made shadows throng,<br> And you the way did not wander.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sat and waited with scarce a doubt:<br> He'll dare the way when the sun's descended.<br>The light shone fainter, was nearly out,<br> The day in darkness had ended.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My weary eye is so wont to gaze,<br> To turn its look it is slow in learning;<br>No other landmark it seeks, nor strays,<br> Beneath the brow sorely burning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They name a place where I help may find,<br> And fain to Fagerli church would guide me;<br>But try not thither to move my mind;<br> He sits there ever beside me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">--But good it is, that full well I know,<br> Who placed the houses both here and yonder,<br>Then cut a way through the woods so low<br> And let my eye on it wander.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But good it is that full well I know,<br> Who built the church and to pray invited,<br>And made them meeting in pairs to go<br> Before the altar united.</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=351412" data-title="Synnove's Song de Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson" data-description="Have thanks for all from our childhood's day, Our play together in woodland roaming. I thought that play would go on for aye, Though life should pass to its gloaming. I thought that play would go on for aye, From bowers leading of leafy birche..."></div> </div> </div>

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