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MIT I.IVS EVENTYR
605
V.
POSTSCRIPT.
And now what have I to say?
Here we sit again by our own firesides, and can
peacefully muse over the bright scenes through which
we have followed the kindly poet. Bright! What is
brighter than a look into that neighbourland of
en-chantment, which our leader tells us is ever at hand!
Better feel we, and meeker, after such a voyage, with
such a cheerily burning lamp as this book in our hands!
Andersen hath struck the wildest and the tenderest
chords of his lyre, and flung impetuously out the full
and rolling ideas that filled his mind. Has he no
farther meaning, no deeper intent in this work? Yes!
surely.
He would make, and perhaps he mav, poets of his
hearers. He would cause them to think. He would
re-mind them of that touch of Nature, which a mightier
bard hath told us makes the whole world kin. Poetry,
— and people begin to see, to feel it now, — is not
so mightily discordant with social life, and Andersen
hath shown this, or stri ven to show it, throughout the
whole of his literary career. He has discovered Poetry
amidst the most common-place of all things. And how?
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