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POEMS WRITTEN IN NORWAY IN 1899: 4. VERSES, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, where below the bastion of the hills
Last Line: And sisters were our ancient muses' mothers.
Subject(s): Norway; Poetry & Poets


Written in the album of Anna Bjornaraa, the composer and singer of Stev, where many Norwegian
and Danish poets had written.

HERE, where below the bastion of the hills
Immortal song still gushes like a fountain,
And with its delicate enchantment fills
The granite goblet of the hollow mountain,
I come, the pilgrim of an alien clime,
And croon a stave with these my Northland brothers,
Since more than blood-kin is the bond of rhyme,
And sisters were our ancient Muses' mothers.





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