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Modem Literary Period 371
anniversary of the founding of Uppsala University.
Those sublime stanzas will never die,
"Your noble thoughts, what you in love would do,
What beauty dreamed, can ne’er by time be marred ;
Time from their harvests is forever barred,
For they do to eternity belong.
Advance, humanity, with joy and zest,
You bear eternity within your breast."
Carl Snoilsky. As a youth enamored of life and in-
toxicated with sunshine and the flowery South, Snoil-
sky is first met with in the world of poetry and song.
It is an ardent worship of all beauty in the world that
meets one in the youthful traveler’s Italian and Span-
ish pictures.
But of a sudden his tone changes to deep sadness.
Whence came this chilly autumn frost upon him? The
poet is too proud to tell. He only says :
"I make not public my heart’s joys and woes
For unknown strangers’ hands to seize and wrinkle."
Was it, perhaps, when he was made to choose between
a life of poetry and song and one of statesmanship
and dry diplomacy, and chose the latter?
But in the second spring, the poet left his diplomatic
course and settled down once more beneath the south-
ern sky. The memory of his northern home now seized
him with irresistible force, and thus were born his
"Swedish Pictures." Here he followed the footsteps
of Runeberg and Topelius. Thus Snoilsky became a
singer of two immortal springs, a southern and a
northern ; and thus is heard a double surge or murmur,
from the Mediterranean and the Malar, in his artis-
tically finished verses.
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