Dare not to sleep

Dare not to sleep: "Dare not to sleep" (Norwegian: "Du må ikke sove!") is a poem written by Arnulf Øverland. The poem was first published in the magazine Samtiden in 1936,^[1] and included in the poetry collection Den Røde Front from 1937.

It is about the Nazism and Fascism's onward march in Europe – a warning against what would happen. In this poem Øverland mentions Hitler by name, and says: ^[2]

And then they’ll leave home for a rainfall of steel,
‘Till last they hang ragged on barbed wire will,
Decaying for Hitler's Aryan call,
That is what a man’s for - after all.

Footnotes

^ Øverland, Arnulf (1936). Jac. S. Worm-Müller. ed. "Du må ikke sove!" (in Norwegian). Samtiden 47: 318–320.

^ Storstrand, Lars-Toralf (2005-06-30). "Les Lars-Toralfs engelske oversettelse" (in Norwegian). Dagbladet. http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2005/06/30/436130.html. Retrieved 2009-03-22.

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Norwegian poems
1936 poems
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Works originally published in literary magazines
Works originally published in political magazines
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