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Poems and Songs

by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

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The Spinner

Oh, what was it he meant
By his question as he went?
  “I am making a loom,
’T will be up in April’s bloom;
  If you think it may be,
    Spin for me!”

Oh, what shall I believe?
Does he think himself to weave?
  And the yarn that I spin,
Lo, he thinks to weave it in?
  And so soon as the Spring
    Flowers shall bring?

And he laughed when he’d done;
Oh, he is so full of fun.
  Dare I trust all my skein
To so young and wild a swain?—
  May God help to bind in
    All I spin!

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