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THE SKJUTS-BOYo 133
"’ When from the clear, bright, crystal bath set free,
In fancy’s imaginative ray,
I saw thy likeness, O, vision rapturous to see!
Deyn¢r can picture none so splendid, so gay!
"’ In Norkaerr’s verdant park I beheld
Thee peel an orange with that hand of thine#
I knew thou couldst hot resist me then,
And that thy hear# beat unison with mine
’" 0 yes, may heaven bless me, and forever
Unite us in faith, hope, and fervent love,
And not fill us with jealous gloomy sorrow,
Such as Frithiof’s Ingeborg doth prove."
Wirén had scarcely concluded the last verse, and had wiped
away from his eyes and his spectacles the tears which the cham-
berlain’s elegy had extracted from him, when De Goesse entered
with a note in his hand, and handed if fo the assessor.
After reading if, Wirén’s lectures, which had been brightened
by a gay expression, caused by the reading of the poem, assumed
a serious cast. If ran as follows]
" #M#Y DEAR CHAbIBERLAIN,––-# am vert sorry that I ara obliged
fo deprive myseff of the agrecable pleasure of being present at
your déjedner; but I ara forced fo go immediately for a phy-
sician."
"The note is from Borgenstierna," said Wirén, "whose son
complained this morning of a violent sickness, and as my friend
is alone, I must procure a physician for hirn, and find out how
can render him assistance."
"Alas! that is too bad," exclaimed Goesse, in iii-humour.
"lçow that I bave bought nearly a thousand oysters, and bave
caused such champagne fo be brought, that even the angels in
heaven do hot drink better. If is not ver T delicate of Mr
Borgenstierna, fo spofl our glorious sport, without any notice."
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