TO THE SURVIVORS by Henrik Ibsen
NOW they sing the hero loud; -- But they sing him in his shroud. Torch he kindled for his land; On his brow ye set its brand. Taught by him to wield a glaive; Through his heart the steel ye drave. Trolls he smote in hard-fought fields; Ye bore him down 'twixt traitor shields. But the shining spoils he won, These ye treasure as your own.-- Dim them not, that so the dead Rest appeased his thorn-crowned head.
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