AN EAGLE CAME from the Sun

AN EAGLE CAME  from the Sun —
Again the God Ase, Creator of the World,
Sent a man to bring Truth and Righteousness.
Again the world rejected Him.
Work and concern alone —
Not only for His own people  —
But for all of Europe was His life.
Then He shook the dust from His wings
And returned to whence He came.
The world knows not what it has lost.

— Knut Hamsun, Mai 1945

Zeichnung von Fidus, 1941