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Kærlighedens komedie (Love’s Comedy)

FALK.
Nå, var end målet lykkesmørrets kærning,
må ånden råde dog i al din slid; –
en mand skal være borger af sin tid,
men adle tidens borgerlige gerning.
Ja visstnok er der skønhed i det små;
men kunsten er at skue og forstå.
Ej hver, som ynder at håndtere sølen,
må derfor tro sig ligemand med „Dølen“.

FALK.
Why, even were fortune-churning our life’s goal,
The labour must be guided by the soul;--
Be citizens of the time that is--but then
Make the time worthy of the citizen.
In homely things lurks beauty, without doubt,
But watchful eye and brain must draw it out.
Not every man who loves the soil he turns
May therefore claim to be another Burns.¹

1. Another Burns. In the original: “Dolen” (“The Dalesman”), that is A. O. Vinje, Ibsen’s friend and literary comrade, editor of the journal so-called and hence known familiarly by its name. See the Introduction.

Nor Ibsen (1862) line no. 3,109; Eng Herford (1900); Permanent link

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