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92 BIOGRAPHY.
When thy last morning greets thy sight,
To choirs of angels take thy flight.”
Fredrika likewise devoted her pen and her eloquence,
during the last years of her life, to call upon society to col-
lect money for the benefit of several charitable institutions ;
for the erection of dwellings for laborers, for which a con-
siderable sum was gathered; for an asylum for aged fe-
males, and for the so-called “Silent School” for deaf and
dumb children, and for several other institutions.
After reading Alexandre Vinet’s excellent works, Fre-
drika longed to follow more attentively on the spot the
religious movement, which had been called forth in Prot-
estant Switzerland by the “Free Church,” of which Vinet
was the founder. This occasioned Fredrika’s journey to
Switzerland in the summer of 1856. She had intended
at the same time to visit Greece, and spend a year in
Athens. I did all I could to dissuade her from under-
taking such a long journey, upon which she proposed to set
out, as usual, quite alone: But when Fredrika had once
got an idea into her head, it must be realized.
To her desire of knowledge, was now also added a cer-
tain restlessness of temper, a longing for change, which,
when she had been at home a short time and in quietness,
made her fancy that she required to travel. When she left
Sweden this time, she had, however, no idea of making
such a long journey as it eventually turned out, namely,
during five years, through Switzerland, Belgium, France,
Italy, Palestine, and Greece. While travelling, a desire
awoke within her, and opportunities presented themselves,
to visit one country after another. Fredrika returned
home in the summer of 1861, and in the following year
she again visited Germany. But this was the last journey
which she made.
Fredrika was permitted to live to see four important
events realized at which her heart, always warm and sym-
pathizing for all progress in a noble and good direction, felt
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