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Quotes from Balder the Beautiful — Robert Williams Buchanan

1841–1901 Scotland

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Along the melting shores of earth
An emerald flame there ran,
Forest and field grew bright, and mirth
Gladdened the flocks of man.

Balder the Beautiful (1877)

All that is beautiful shall abide,
All that is base shall die.

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But whosoe’er shall conquer Death,
Tho’ mortal man he be,
Shall in his season rise again,
And live, with thee, and me!

Balder the Beautiful (1877)

Then glory grew on earth and heaven,
Full glory of full day!

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O Balder, he who fashion’d us,
And bade us live and move,
Shall weave for Death’s sad heavenly hair
Immortal flowers of love.

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So hath he hunted down the gods
As well as human things!

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Williams Buchanan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.