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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409381" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>By The Fireside : Tegner's Death (Tegner's Drapa)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I heard a voice, that cried,<br>'Balder the Beautiful<br>Is dead, is dead!'<br>And through the misty air<br>Passed like the mournful cry<br>Of sunward sailing cranes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw the pallid corpse<br>Of the dead sun<br>Borne through the Northern sky.<br>Blasts from Niffelheim<br>Lifted the sheeted mists<br>Around him as he passed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the voice forever cried,<br>'Balder the Beautiful<br>Is dead, is dead!'<br>And died away<br>Through the dreary night,<br>In accents of despair. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Balder the Beautiful,<br>God of the summer sun,<br>Fairest of all the Gods!<br>Light from his forehead beamed,<br>Runes were upon his tongue,<br>As on the warrior's sword. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All things in earth and air<br>Bound were by magic spell<br>Never to do him harm;<br>Even the plants and stones;<br>All save the mistletoe,<br>The sacred mistletoe! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hoeder, the blind old God,<br>Whose feet are shod with silence,<br>Pierced through that gentle breast<br>With his sharp spear, by fraud<br>Made of the mistletoe,<br>The accursed mistletoe! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They laid him in his ship,<br>With horse and harness,<br>As on a funeral pyre.<br>Odin placed<br>A ring upon his finger,<br>And whispered in his ear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They launched the burning ship!<br>It floated far away<br>Over the misty sea,<br>Till like the sun it seemed,<br>Sinking beneath the waves.<br>Balder returned no more! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So perish the old Gods!<br>But out of the sea of Time<br>Rises a new land of song,<br>Fairer than the old.<br>Over its meadows green<br>Walk the young bards and sing. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Build it again,<br>O ye bards,<br>Fairer than before!<br>Ye fathers of the new race,<br>Feed upon morning dew,<br>Sing the new Song of Love! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The law of force is dead!<br>The law of love prevails!<br>Thor, the thunderer,<br>Shall rule the earth no more,<br>No more, with threats,<br>Challenge the meek Christ. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sing no more,<br>O ye bards of the North,<br>Of Vikings and of Jarls!<br>Of the days of Eld<br>Preserve the freedom only,<br>Not the deeds of blood!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a><div class=q>
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'Balder the Beautiful
Is dead, is dead!'
And through the misty air
Passed like the mournful cry
Of sunward sailing cranes. 

I saw the pallid corpse
Of the dead sun
Borne through the Northern sky.
Blasts from Niffelhei..."></div>
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