to glory war...", but predicted the ominous emergence of the gas masks and machine guns. After Vrimmel, Jacobsen was silent as a poet for 16 years. German Occupation years During the Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany (1940–1945), Jacobsen signed and published in Kongsvinger Arbeiderblad editorials that supported the German occupiers. He was also a member of the Norwegian National Socialist Party. After the liberation of Norway at the end of World War II, Jacobsen was convicted of treason and sentenced to three and a half years at hard labor. After his internment, Jacobsen settled at Abelsethgården in the city of Hamar. He worked as a bookseller for ten years, and then as a journalist and night editor for the newspaper Hamar Stifstidende. In 1950 he converted to Roman Catholicism, and in 1951, Jacobsen published his third collection of poems, Fjerntog. The poems were traditional in form. In this work and in Hemmelig liv (1954), Jacobsen expressed his troubled compassion for the world around him. A new theme was the rough and lonely Norwegian scenery. Jacobsen often expressed ironically his doubts about technology, and praised the blessings of little joys. Sometimes he used humor, sometimes his poems had hymnlike solemnity. In Hamar, Jacobsen lived in an old wooden house near Lake Mjøsa and the railroad. These surroundings he also described in his poems. Jacobsen's later books include Pass for dørene – dørene lukkes (1972), Pusteøvelse (1975), and Tenk på noe annet (1979). Personal life Jacobsen was engaged for a time to Elisabeth Wiborg, daughter of author Julli Wiborg. In 1940 Jacobsen married Petra Tendø (1912–1983); they had two sons. While his parents' marriage did not succeed, Jacobsen's own marriage was harmonious. After his wife's death, in his last book, Nattåpent (1985), Jacobsen published tender and mournful poems about their life together: "Whoever loves for years / hasn't lived in vain." He died in 1994 and was buried at Hamar kirkegård in Hamar. Bibliography Jord og jern ('Earth and Iron') – poetry (1933) Vrimmel ('Swarm') – poetry (1935) Fjerntog (Express Train) – poetry (1951) Hemmelig liv ('Secret Life') – poetry (1954) Sommeren i gresset ('Summer in the Grass') – poetry (1956) Brev til lyset ('Letter to the Light') – poetry (1960) Stillheten efterpå ('The Silence Afterwards') – poetry (1965) Headlines – poetry (1969) Pass for dørene - dørene lukkes ('Mind the Doors - The Doors are Closing') – poetry (1972) Pusteøvelse