Death & Dying
On the Death of N. F. S. Grundtvig
Translated by Arthur Hubbell Palmer (1915) · From Poems and Songs (1870; Palmer 1915)
E'en as the Sibyl in Northland-dawn drew
Forth from the myth-billows gliding,
Told all the past, all the future so true,
Sank with the lands' last subsiding,--
Prophecies leaving, eternally new,
Still abiding
Thus goes his spirit the Northland before,--
Though, that he sank, we have tiding,--
Visions unfolding like sun-clouds, when o'er
Sea-circled lands they are riding,
Northern lands' future, till time is no more,
Ever guiding.
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MLA
Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne. “On the Death of N. F. S. Grundtvig.” Translated by Arthur Hubbell Palmer. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bjornson/98/.
Chicago
Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne. “On the Death of N. F. S. Grundtvig.” Translated by Arthur Hubbell Palmer. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bjornson/98/.
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