Sweden's Laureate: Selected Poems of Verner von Heidenstam/A Song to Heidenstam

by Charles Wharton Stork

A SONG TO HEIDENSTAM

Voice of Sweden's land and men,
Heidenstam!
Rouse thy people once again,
Heidenstam!
Sing the splendor of her past.
Legend-glory dim and vast,
Heidenstam, Heidenstam!

Sing her forests dark and deep,
Heidenstam!
Sing her long white winter sleep,
Heidenstam!
Then with tones prophetic sing
All the rapture of her spring,
Heidenstam, Heidenstam!

Sing the Northland bold and free,
Heidenstam!
Sing the wonders that shall be,
Heidenstam!
Sing of Sweden's heart and mind
Aiding, heartening all mankind,
Heidenstam, Heidenstam!