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THE LORD’S SUPPER 15
Under its canopy fastened, a necklace had on of
wind-flowers.
But in front of the choir, round the altar-piece painted by
Horberg,*
Crept a garland gigantic; and bright-curling tresses of
angels
Peeped, like the sun from a cloud, out of the shadowy
leaf-work.
Likewise the lustre of brass, new-polished, blinked from
the ceiling,
And for lights there were lilies of Pentecost set in the
sockets.
Loud rang the bells already; the thronging crowd was
assembled
Far from valleys and hills, to list to the holy preaching.
Hark! then roil forth at once the mighty tones from the
organ,
Hover like voices from God, aloft like invisible spirits.
Like as Elias in heaven, when he cast off from him his
mantle,
Even so cast off the soul its garments of earth; and with
one voice
Chimed in the congregation, and sang an anthem immortal
Of the sublime Wallin,t of David’s harp in the Northland
Tuned to the choral of Luther; the song on its powerful
pinions
Took every living soul, and lifted it gently to heaven,
• The peasant-painter of Sweden. He is known chiefly by his altar-pieces in
the village churches.
■(■ A distinguished pulpit-orator and poet. He is particularly remarkable for the
beauty and sublimity of his psalms.
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