Young men and women, strong and sound, <br />Adorn with beautiful excess <br />Of play and song and flower-dress <br />Our fatherland's ancestral ground. <br />They dream great deeds of ages older, <br />They long to lead to battles bolder. <br /> <br />Young men and women, strong and sound, <br />Our nation's honor are, in whom <br />Our whole life has its better bloom, <br />Rebirth upon our fathers' ground <br />Of them of yore. Anew there flower <br />The old in young folks' summer-power. <br /> <br />Young men and women, strong and sound, <br />Can doubly do our deeds and fill <br />With higher hope for all we will,- <br />Are growth in character's deep ground, <br />To larger life drawn by the spirit <br />They from our forefathers inherit.<br /><br />Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/young-men-and-women-strong-and-sound/
