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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson: All labor’s dread of war’s mad waste and murder
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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
From Halte Hulda (1869)
Translated by Arthur Hubbell Palmer
The Dove
I saw a dove fear-daunted,
By howling storm-blast driven;
Where waves their power vaunted,
From land it had been riven.
No cry nor moan it uttered,
I heard no plaint repeated;
In vain its pinions fluttered –
It had to sink, defeated.
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