For still, as I rode down the shady way,

Each rosebud beguiled and delayed me.

Silently into the church I stole;

The priest at the altar was bending;

He chanted and read, and with awe in their soul,

The folk to God’s word were attending.

Then a voice rang out o’er the fiord so blue;

And the carven angels, the whole church through,

Turned round, methought, to listen thereto.

Margit.