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of it, the wheels taken off, and thus it stood,
without further ceremony, on its own bottom,
and four swine were shut in there. If these
were the first that had been in it one could not
determine; but that it was once a state-carriage
everything about it bore witness, even to the
strip of morocco that hung from the roof
inside, all bore witness of better days. It is
true, every word of it.
"Uff," said the occupiers within, and the
carriage creaked and complained – it was a
sorrowful end it had come to.
"The beautiful is past!" so it sighed; so it
said, or it might have said so.
We returned here in the autumn. The
carriage, or rather the body of the carriage,
stood in its old place, but the swine were
gone: they were lords in the forests; rain and
drizzle reigned there; the wind tore the leaves
off all the trees, and allowed them neither rest
nor quiet: the birds of passage were gone.
"The beautiful is past!" said the carrage,
and the same sigh passed through the whole of
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