War-crimsoned forms
Stat-flashing eyes.
For lyric character, the sturdy Danish peasant and healthy Danish girl:
Fair women, comely maids.
Strong men and lads are dwelling
In Denmark's island glades.
There is Christian Winter with his poignantly brief melodic gesture:
We were so greatly alone.
We and our spirit
But as always the burdened heart, the homesick heart:
O to be Home! to be home in the distant
Beloved coast! . . .
There is Holger Drachmann with his outward insouciance, his interior delight in shocking a folk who secretly delight in being shocked-all cocked into roguishly droll, yet essentially sad, stanzas. The tongue i'-the cheek cannot quite outdo the tear-i'-the-eye:
Hello there! take your ragged hat
Old as the hills and tattered,
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