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1266 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
Her biographer passes the following judgment on her poetical genius,
"Sophia Brenner’s verses are distinguished by great freedom and at
the same time precision of language, yet notwithstanding the extra
vagant praises heaped upon her by her contemporaries, the reflections
contained in them are of the soberest and most matter-of-fact kind,
and the interest which they command belongs purely to the history.
of literature."
NOTE 295.
COUNT MAGNUS STENBOCK.
Count Magnus Stenbock, the hero of Swedenborg’s Ode published
in his Ludus Heliconius (Document 313, no. 5, p. 886), was born
in 1664. After finishing his course at the University of Upsal, he
went abroad and entered into the military service of Holland. In
1687 he joined the Swedish army and soon rose to the dignity of a
colonel. At the head of his regiment of Dalecarlians he was present
with Charles XII in the successful battles which he fought against
the Saxons and Russians, until 1707, when he was appointed governor
of Schonen. When, after the disastrous battle of Pultawa, the Danes
made warlike demonstrations against Sweden, Stenbock did all he
could in order to put the country into a proper state of defence,
and amid all possible difficulties he succeeded in raising an army
for the defence of Schonen. With an ill-drilled, and badly furnished
army he took the offensive, and attacked the Danish army near
Helsingborg in the middle of winter. He had 6000 horsemen, a
part of whom were in wooden shoes, and 8000 infantry, who wore
their usual peasants ’ garments and sheep-skins, and with this army
he attacked the Danes who numbered 15,000 soldiers, and utterly
defeated them, compelling them to retreat across the Sound. Rarely
has a victory been hailed with greater outbursts of joy, than Sten
bock’s victory over the Danes at Helsingborg, on the 10th of
February, 1710. Swedenborg was then still at Brunsbo, sharing
the universal joy of the people. His joy sought an outlet in the
Latin Ode to which we have referred above; and we follow the
example of Dr. Wilkinson by inserting here, "to adorn our pages,"
Francis Barham’s spirited version of Swedenborg’s poem :
"Lulled be the dissonance of war-the crash
Of blood- stained arms-and let us listen now
To sweetest songs of jubilee. From harp
And thrilling lyre, let melodies of joy
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