«Kristiania, det kjedeligste og tarveligste af alt kjedeligt og tarveligt, Kristiania, det stilløse og historieløse, Ola Fet, der knoter, Ola Fet, der spiller fin i Transtøvler og Floshat, Kristiania, en Smaastad uden Smaabyens Hygge, en Hovedstad uden Storstadens Liv.»
Now this particular girl During a ceremonious april walk With her latest suitor Found herself, of a sudden, intolerably struck By the bird's irregular babel And the leaves' litter.
By this tumult afflicted, she Observed her lover's gestures unbalance the air, His gait stray uneven Through a rank wilderness of fern and flower; She judged petals in disarray, The whole season, sloven.
How she longed for winter then!- Scrupulously austere in its order Of white and black Ice and rock; each sentiment within border, And heart's frosty discipline Exact as a snowflake.
But here - a burgeoning Unruly enough to pitch her five queenly wits Into vulgar motley- A treason not to be borne; let idiots Reel giddy in bedlam spring; She withdrew neatly.
And round her house she set Such a barricade of barb and check Against mutinous weather As no mere insurgent man could hope to break With curse, fist, threat Or love, either.
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