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beech-trees cease to grow; I fly further towards
the north than the stork. You shall see the
vegetable mould pass over into rocky ground;
see snug, neat towns, old churches and
mansions, where all is good and comfortable,
where the family stand in a circle around the
table and say grace at meals, where the least
of the children says a prayer, and, morning and
evening, sings a psalm. I have heard it, I
have seen it, when little, from my nest under
the eaves."
"Come with me! come with me!" screams
the restless sea-gull, and flies in an expecting
circle. "Come with me to the Skjärgaards,
where rocky isles by thousands, with fir and
pine, lie like flower-beds along the coast;
where the fishermen draw the well-filled
nets!"
"Rest thee between our extended wings," sing
the wild swans. "Let us bear thee up to the
great lakes, the perpetually roaring elvs (rivers),
that rush on with arrowy swiftness; where the
oak forest has long ceased, and the birch-tree
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