Craft, the wolf, with howl and yell,

Bays at Wisdom, sun of earth;

Cries of ruin ring to North,

Call to arms by fjord and fell;

And the pigmy, quaking, grim,

Hisses: “What is that to him?”

Let the other nations glow,

Let the mighty meet the foe,

We can ill afford to bleed,—

We are weak, may fairly plead