The folk who live in Scandinavia
Are famous for their odd behavia.
They have the frigidest of climates
And avoid their bellicose fellow-primates.
Though salesmen cluster at their door,
They don't want anybody's war.
It isn't that they put on airs;
They merely mind their own affairs.

Fellow Creatures III: The Northerners, in I'm a Stranger Here Myself, 1938