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Hans Christian Andersen

Danmark kommer Bouquetten fra

Danmark kommer Bouquetten fra,
Den dufter af danske Minder;
Tør jeg vel haabe, i Afrika
At eie to unge Veninder?

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William Shakespeare

King Claudius: The head is not more native to the heart,
The hand more instrumental to the mouth,
Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.
What wouldst thou have, Laertes?

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At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.

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Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

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Hans Christian Andersen

Soldaternes Sang til Dannebrog

Vor gamle Fane, vort Dannebrog,
Som Himlen gav os med Seier,
Dig har jeg elsket fra lille Pog,
Mit hele Hjerte Du eier.

Du hellige Fane, Du danske Flag,
Om Dig straaler Mindernes Glorie,
Med Gud og med Dig hos den ærligste Sag
Staaer Danmark i Verdens Historie.

De gloende Kugler kan svie din Flig,
Men det kun en Stund os bedrøver;
Den danske Matros er og bliver sig lig,
Som Vaabenet Hjerter og Løver.

Hvis selv jeg falder paa Kampens Dag,
I Kampen for Danmark, for Norden,
Saa svøb mig blot i et Dannebrogs Flag,
I det vil jeg lægges i Jorden!

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The chair on which a Dane is sitting is beautifully decorated.

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Worlds Biggest Rat

World’s Biggest Rat.

A moonlit evening, behind a supermarket in Denmark, a guard
spotted a very big rat and he got his dog to kill it. The biggest
rat in the world so big it couldn’t live in the sewer, it makes
you proud to be Danish. With so much food around in streets
and in supermarket’s bin, could easily feed the poor. But there
is no poor people in Denmark! Vermin is a problem, one can’t
put them on a lorry and send them to another country.
There was a picture of the rat in the papers, a conceited guard,
we didn’t his dog though, held it aloft like trophy. It turned to
be a mother rat when it was dissected at the lab, eight baby rats
waiting to be born. More and more, long tailed rodents are
roaming streets, emptying bins and eating our babies in their
cots. One wonders if they are listening to the ancient prophecy: ”
One day vermin shall live in the sunlight side by side with man.”

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Hans Christian Andersen

Ved Botanikeren Liebmanns Afreise til Mexico 1840

Naar Du nu om ikke længe
Staaer i Mexico,
„Danmark deiligst Vang og Vænge"
I din Tanke boe!
Tropisk Farve-Pragt Du finder,
Dog i Hjertet lever Minder,
Ei Du vil derude glemme
Kløverblomsten hjemme!

Videnskaben Guld Du hente
I Amerika!
Ja med slige Skatte vente
Vi Dig hjem derfra.
Danmarks Søn, gjør Danmark Ære,
Blomst og Træ dit Navn maa bære!
Kraftig Villie, Tro paa Himlen
Følge Dig i Vrimlen!

Ja med den vor Tanke følger
Dig til fjerne Strand,

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Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.

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Virginia Madsen

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

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Hans Christian Andersen

Rahbek

Bien drømmer om sin Kube ved hver Blomst bag Skovens Hang;
Honning Du til Danmark samled' paa den grønne Digter-Vang;
Bakkehuset vil forglemmes, men ei hvad dit Hjerte sang.

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About Denmark

Why not let us compromise
about Denmark's proper size,
which will truly please us all,
since it's bigger than it's small.

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The Danish Boy: A Fragment

I

Between two sister moorland rills
There is a spot that seems to lie
Sacred to flowerets of the hills,
And sacred to the sky.
And in this smooth and open dell
There is a tempest-stricken tree;
A corner-stone by lightning cut,
The last stone of a lonely hut;
And in this dell you see
A thing no storm can e'er destroy,
The shadow of a Danish Boy.

II

In clouds above, the lark is heard,
But drops not here to earth for rest;
Within this lonesome nook the bird
Did never build her nest.

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G.K. Chesterton

Book VII: Ethandune, the Last Charge

Away in the waste of White Horse Down
An idle child alone
Played some small game through hours that pass,
And patiently would pluck the grass,
Patiently push the stone.

On the lean, green edge for ever,
Where the blank chalk touched the turf,
The child played on, alone, divine,
As a child plays on the last line
That sunders sand and surf.

For he dwelleth in high divisions
Too simple to understand,
Seeing on what morn of mystery
The Uncreated rent the sea
With roarings, from the land.

Through the long infant hours like days
He built one tower in vain--

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To The Dannebrog

(When Dybbol was captured)
Dannebrog of old was seeming

Snow-white, rosy red,

Through the mists of ages beaming,
Heaven's gift outspread,
Rich as fruits of Denmark's planting,
Grand as song of heroes chanting,
Spirit-winged to deeds of daring
O'er the wide world faring.

Dannebrog, thou now art seeming

Death-pale, bloody red,

Like a dying sea-gull gleaming
White with blood o'erspread.
Purple tides the wounds are showing
From thy faith in justice flowing;

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We went to Denmark twice and Germany and also to the Canary Isles one year. I remember once when we were playing Dresden in Germany.

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Hans Christian Andersen

Den Frivillige

Jeg kan ikke blive, jeg har ingen Ro,
Jeg maa med de andre til Leiren!
Vor Sag er retfærdig, og Gud tør vi troe
Er med os, han giver os Seiren.

Aarhundreder Danmark var mægtigt og stort,
Men saa blev der plukket og plukket.
Nu skal de ei gjøre, hvad før de har gjort,
For længe har Danmark nu sukket.

De kan overvælde vort lille Land,
Men rokke ei Mod eller Villie.
Thi nu slaae vi alle til yderste Mand,
Vort Skjold er saa reent som en Lilie.

Jeg føler mig stærk, og jeg kan holde ud!
Tak Moder, Du vil, jeg maa stride.
Med mig er din Tanke og med mig er Gud,
Hvad troer du din Søn da kan lide.

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Jabberwocky Redux

After reading too much Aquinas

Would an aphid reside in an onager's ear
if the onager's master spoke Twi?
Or a Gascony scop with a leper elope
if a civet leapt out of a tree?
You doubt it? Read Thomas and see.

Would an addax in Denmark gyrate
if an emu in Sweden bore freight?
Or an eland in Chile complain
if jerboas in Goa refrain?
You doubt it? Read Thomas and see.

For really I thought ‘twas the onager taught
the aphid the tenor of Twi, and that
Gascony scops with Norwegians eloped
when Danes had lepers to tea.
You doubt it? Read Thomas and see.

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Beowulf (Episode 09)

ME thus often the evil monsters
thronging threatened. With thrust of my sword,
the darling, I dealt them due return!
Nowise had they bliss from their booty then
to devour their victim, vengeful creatures,
seated to banquet at bottom of sea;
but at break of day, by my brand sore hurt,
on the edge of ocean up they lay,
put to sleep by the sword. And since, by them
on the fathomless sea-ways sailor-folk
are never molested. -- Light from east,
came bright God's beacon; the billows sank,
so that I saw the sea-cliffs high,
windy walls. For Wyrd oft saveth
earl undoomed if he doughty be!
And so it came that I killed with my sword
nine of the nicors. Of night-fought battles
ne'er heard I a harder 'neath heaven's dome,
nor adrift on the deep a more desolate man!
Yet I came unharmed from that hostile clutch,

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The Norrona-Race

Norrona-race's longing,
It was the sea's free wave,
And fight of heroes thronging,
And honor that it gave;
Their thoughts and deeds upspringing
From roots in Surtr's fire,
With branches topward swinging
To Yggdrasil aspire.

His course alone each guided,
Oft brother-harm was done;
Our vict'ries were divided,
The honor gained was one.
Each heard his call time-fated,
First Norway, Denmark, came,
The Swede the longest waited,
But greatest grew his fame.

In eastern, western regions
The Danish dragons shone,

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