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(1851) [MARC] Author: H. C. Andersen
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wild thistle flowers beautifully fragrant as the
fresh rose. But now for Memory’s sprite from
Sweden, from Upsala. He comes thence in
the form of a student – at least, he wears the
Upsala student’s white cap with the black rim.
To us it points out its home, as the Phrygian
cap denotes Ganymede.

It was in the year 1843, that the Danish
students travelled to Upsala. Young hearts met
together; eyes sparkled: they laughed, they sang.
Young hearts are the future – the conquering
future – in the beautiful, true and good; it is so
good that brothers should know and love each
other. Friendship’s meeting is still annually
remembered in the palace-yard of Upsala, before
the monument of Gustavus Vasa – by the hurra!
for Denmark, in warm-hearted compliment to me.

Two summers afterwards, the visit was
returned. The Swedish students came to
Copenhagen, and that they might there be known
amongst the multitude, the Upsala students
wore a white cap with a black rim: this cap is
accordingly a memorial, – the sign of friendship’s


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