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illumined by so strong a sunlight that the walls
seem transparent; the linden-trees in the
gardens, which have lately put forth their leaves,
appear like fresh, young woods; the long,
narrow windows in the Gothic buildings on the
island shine as if it were a festal illumination,
and between the dark firs there falls a lustre
from the panes behind them as of a thousand
flames, as if the trees were covered with flickering
– Christmas lights; the colours of the rainbow
become stronger and stronger, the background
darker and darker, and the white sun-lit
sea-gulls fly past.
The rainbow has placed one foot high up on
Södermalm’s churchyard. Where the rainbow
touches the earth, there lie treasures buried, is a
popular belief here. The rainbow tests on a
grave up there: Stagnalius rests here, Sweden’s
most gifted singer, so young and so unhappy;
and in the same grave lies Nicander, he who
sang about King Enzio, and of "Lejonet i
Oken;"[1] who sang with a bleeding heart: the
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