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the slate-stone peers forth in flat layers, a green
moss upon it, and it looks like threadbare
patches in the green velvet carpet. The
high road leads over an extent of ground
where the slate-stone lies like a firm floor. In
the Campagna of Rome, one would say it is a
piece of via appia, or antique road; but it is
Kinnakulla’s naked skin and bones that we
pass over. The peasant’s house is composed of
large slate-stones, and the roof is covered with
them; one sees nothing of wood except that of
the door, and above it, of the large painted
shield, which states to what regiment the soldier
belongs who got this house and plot of ground
in lieu of pay.
We cast another glance over Venern, to
Lockö’s old palace, to the town of Lendkjobing,
and are again near verdant fields and noble
trees, that cast their shadows over Blomberg,
where, in the garden, the poet Geier’s spirit seeks
the flower of Kinnakulla in his grand-daughter,
little Anna.
The plain expands here behind Kinnakulla;
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