An Eagle Came
 

An Eagle came from the Sun—
Again the God Asa, 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.
 

Norwegian Nobel laureate writer Knut Hamsun, May 1945