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(1917) [MARC] Author: J. P. Jacobsen Translator: Hanna Astrup Larsen With: Hanna Astrup Larsen
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wild with glee and sing at the top of my voice and walk
and pick flowers and throw them away again and call to
the birds, when they flew up — and then, on the sudden,
a strange fright would come over me, and I would feel, oh!
so wretched and so small! Whenever a branch broke I’d
start, and the sound of my own voice gave me more fright
than anything else. Hast thou never felt it?”

Before Ulrik Frederik could answer her song rang out:

“Right merrily in the woods I go
Where elm and apple grow,
And I pluck me there sweet roses two
And deck my silken shoe.
Oh, the dance,
Oh, the dance,
Oh, tra-la-la!
Oh, the red, red berries on the dogrose bush!”


and as she sang, the whip flew down over her horse, she
laughed, hallooed, and galloped at top speed along a narrow
forest path, where the branches swept her shoulders. Her
eyes sparkled, her cheeks burned, she did not heed Ulrik
Frederik calling after her. The whip whizzed through the
air again, and off she went with reins slack! Her
fluttering habit was flecked with foam. The soft earth flew up
around her horse. She laughed and cut the tall ferns with
her whip.

Suddenly the light seemed to be lifted from leaf and
branch and to flee from the rain-heavy darkness. The
rustling of the bushes had ceased, and the hoof-beats were
silent, as she rode across a stretch of forest glade. On
either side the trees stood like a dark encircling wall.
Ragged gray clouds were scudding over the black,

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