39. hemsk (frightened),—till mods being mentally supplied from the second stanza.
50. den arma jord(en), the suffixed definite sign being frequently dropped in poetic style.
52. all … mord; the correspondence between qualifiers and nouns is sometimes lost in a series, as here, lögn and flärd (sg.) requiring all, but mord (pl.), alla. Analogous inconsistencies are found in the best literature, as in Tegner's Addresses (På Växjö gymnasium, 1836): "Den som sitter vid lästen och den som sitter vid statsstyret, vid svarvstolen eller på lärostolen, vid plogen eller lyran," the quotation conveying the incongruous idea of "sitting at the plow," as at the shoemaker's bench or the turning lathe.
62. Herren vill jag lova calls for a sharp distinction between lova (praise) and lova (promise).
ÖDMJUKER ER!
1. ödmjuker; the alternative form in -er (2nd person pl., imperative) is peculiar to solemn rhetorical style. Cf. lines 13, 15, 32.
2. himlens rand, usually the horizon, here has a vague and undefinable poetic meaning.
K. V. A. STRANDBERG.
BARRIKADER.
14. på sistone, archaic form of på det sista; modern style, till sist, at length.