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yes, also on our own legs, and glance now and
then from reality, over the fence into the region
of thought, which is always out near neighbourland;
pluck a flower or a leaf, to be placed in
the note-book – for it sprung out during our
journey’s flight: we fly and we sing. Sweden,
thou glorious land! Sweden, where, in ancient
times, the sacred gods came from Asia’s
mountains! land that still retains rays of their
lustre, which streams from the flowers in the name
of "Linnæus;" which beams for thy chivalrous
men from Charles the Twelfth’s banner; which
sounds from the obelisk on the field of Lutzen!
Sweden, thou land of deep feeling, of heart-felt
songs! home of the limpid elvs, where the
wild swans sing in the gleam of the Northern
Lights! Thou land, on whose deep, still lakes
Scandinavia’s fairy builds her colonnades, and
leads her battling, shadowy host over the icy
mirror! Glorious Sweden! with thy fragrant
Linnæus, with Jenny’s soul-enlivening songs!
To thee will we fly with the stork and the
swallow, with the restless sea-gull and the wild
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