That is life: To be elated
in the hours short and sweet
deep in your youthful ease –

To become a sea that with peace
another sea will meet
through the dark, lonesome space –

To become a surf of foaming waves.
Sea against sea!
As fated
and in the peaceful grave be free ---

--André Bjerke

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