Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Introductory to Sweden | | Scandinavia | | James Thomson (1834–1882) |
| | (From Liberty)
THENCE the laud Baltic passing, black with storm, | |
| To wintry Scandinavia’s utmost bound; | |
| There I the manly race, the parent hive | |
| Of the mixed kingdoms, formed into a state | |
| More regularly free. By keener air | 5 |
| Their genius purged, and tempered hard by frost, | |
| Tempest and toil their nerves, the sons of those | |
| Whose only terror was a bloodless death, | |
| They wise and dauntless still sustain my cause. | | | | |
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