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(1851) [MARC] Author: H. C. Andersen
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which a small silk glove is fastened. It was
his betrothed one’s dainty glove – that which
he, knight-like, always bore.

O, barbarous era! highly vaunted as you are
in song, retreat, like the storm-cloud, and be
poetically beautiful to all who do not see thee in
thy true light.

We descend from the little chamber, from
the gold and silver of the dead, and wander in
the church’s aisles. The cold marble tombs,
with shields of arms and names, awaken other,
milder thoughts.

The walls shine brightly, and with varied
hues, in the great chapel behind the high altar.
The fresco paintings present to us the most
eventful circumstances of Gustavus Vasa’s life.
Here his clay moulders, with that of his three
consorts. Yonder, a work in marble, by
Sargel, solicits our attention: it adorns the
burial-chapel of the De Geers; and here, in
the centre aisle, under that flat stone, rests
Linnæus. In the side chapel, is his monument,

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