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POEMS WRITTEN IN NORWAY IN 1899: 4. VERSES by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE

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 @3Stev,@1 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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