Esaias Tegner Poems

King Ring with his queen to the banquet did fare,
On the lake stood the ice so mirror-clear,
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No more shall I see
In its upward motion
The smoke of the Northland. Man is a slave:
The fates decree.
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Three miles extended around the fields of the homestead, on three sides
Valleys and mountains and hills, but on the fourth side was the ocean.
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Spring is coming, birds are twittering, forests leaf, and smiles the sun,
And the loosened torrents downward, singing, to the ocean run;
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