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to the very source of the elv, the bubbling
well above Finman’s hut: one feels a desire to
follow every branch of the stream that the river
takes in.
The first mighty fall, Njupeskœrs cataract,
is seen by the Norwegian frontier in Sernasog.
The mountain stream rushes perpendicularly
from the rock to a depth of seventy fathoms.
We pause in the dark forest, where the
elv seems to collect within itself nature’s whole
deep gravity. The stream rolls its clear waters
over a porphyry soil where the mill-wheel is
driven, and the gigantic porphyry bowls and
sarcophagi are polished.
We follow the stream through Siljan’s lake,
where superstition sees the water-sprite swim,
like the sea-horse with a mane of green
seaweed, and where the aërial images present
visions of witchcraft in the warm summer
days.
We sail on the stream from Siljan’s lake,
under the weeping willows of the parsonage,
where the swans assemble in flocks; we glide
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