The Icelandic Canadian - 01.12.2004, Síða 39

Vol. 59 #2
THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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Let us all become Icelanders,
There is a 99% literacy rate.
Everybody is published
And everybody is a poet.
Let us all become Icelanders
And brood over the Sagas.
The men take the father's name
And the women the mother's.
Let us all become Icelanders
And vote the Earliest Republican ticket.
We take no guff from the Danes
And we give the Norwegians nightmares.
Let us all become Icelanders
And scare away the British trawlers.
Our sons and daughters will be clear-eyed
And write poetry unashamed.
Let us all become Icelanders
And wear our Lutheranism very lightly.
Odin and Thor go drinking with us
And Loki
is
never
very
far
away.