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16
BOLLER.
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Chap. XXIX.
“ Arte dig kaaber nagle, die ligger i guld ” (flourish,
copper nail, thou liest in gold). Queen Margaret counted
not on the vengeance of the bride’s betrothed, Holger
Munk, the lord of Boiler, who, to the rage of the
queen, picked a quarrel with the bridegroom, killed
him, and married his widow the next day.
There is something very attractive in these Danish
country-seats, reminding you much of England as it is
still in many parts, and was formerly, before the
vil-lanous taste of sundry landscape-gardeners destroyed
our fine old gardens, and laid low our trim avenues.
Our grounds are well kept, radiant with American
shrubs and flowers; but in nine places out of ten
where can you walk and meditate ?—straight you cannot
go; either you tumble into an iron fence and march
into the centre of a flower-bed, or get stranded among
the rock-work, a foot upon zig, a foot upon zag: no
reveries, no brown-study in an English garden, and
very little shade into the bargain. In France you have
your clipped charmille—your terrace, wide and imposing
—your plate-bandes, laid out perhaps too formally, but
very charming altogether, and adapted to the climate
of a joyous sunny land. What I enjoy in these Danish
residences is the combination of all these advantages
together. Your garden gay with old-fashioned flowers,
glorious roses; then, further removed, the lime avenue
— “ se perdant dans les bois ” — those lovely woods
running always to the water’s edge. The only thing I
disapprove of is the stagnant moat, telling of fever; it
must be unwholesome, and should be let off from time
to time.
Not far removed from the chateau of Boiler stands the
parish church of Uth. If you love old stone monuments
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