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Et lille Vers

Jo reenere Korn, jo striere Halm.
Jo klingere Liud, jo haardere Malm.
Jo fædere Melk, jo rammere Ost.
Jo hvidere Snee, jo koldere Frost.
Jo klarere Vand, jo dybere Søe.
Jo glattere Hud, jo stoltere Møe.

Errantry

'Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,
And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
For who would live so petty and unblessed
That he dare not tilt at something, ere he die?'
Rather than, screened by safe majority,
Preserve his little life to little ends,
and never raise a rebel battle-cry!

Eros

The sense of the world is short, -
Long and various the report, -
To love and be beloved;
Men and gods have not outlearned it;
And, how oft soe'er they've turned it,
'Tis not to be improved.

Erato

Nature, où sont tes Dieux ? Ô prophétique aïeule,
Ô chair mystérieuse où tout est contenu,
Qui pendant si longtemps as vécu de toi seule
Et qui sembles mourir, parle, qu’est devenu

Erat Hora

‘Thank you, whatever comes.' And then she turned
And, as the ray of sun on hanging flowers
Fades when the wind hath lifted them aside,
Went swiftly from me. Nay, whatever comes
One hour was sunlit and the most high gods
May not make boast of any better thing
Than to have watched that hour as it passed.