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"The old
student," was the reply. "They say that he was once an energetic young man, that
he studied the dead languages, and sang and even composed many songs; then
something had happened to him, and in consequence of this he gave himself up to
drink, body and mind. When at last he had ruined his health, they brought him
into the country, where someone paid for his board and residence. He was gentle
as a child as long as the sullen mood did not come over him; but when it came he
was fierce, became as strong as a giant, and ran about in the wood like a chased
deer.
But when we succeeded in bringing him home, and prevailed upon him
to open the book with the dried-up plants in it, he would sometimes sit for a
whole day looking at this or that plant, while frequently the tears rolled over
his cheeks. God knows what was in his mind; but he requested us to put the book
into his coffin, and now he lies there. In a little while the lid will be placed
upon the coffin, and he will have sweet rest in the grave!" The cloth which
covered his face was lifted up; the dead man's face expressed peace- a sunbeam
fell upon it.
A swallow flew with the swiftness of an arrow into the
arbour, turning in its flight, and twittered over the dead man's head. What a
strange feeling it is- surely we all know it- to look through old letters of our
young days; a different life rises up out of the past, as it were, with all its
hopes and sorrows. How many of the people with whom in those days we used to be
on intimate terms appear to us as if dead, and yet they are still alive- only we
have not thought of them for such a long time, whom we imagined we should retain
in our memories for ever, and share every joy and sorrow with them.
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And
then the tree told the little mice all about its youth. They had never heard
such an account in their lives; and after they had listened to it attentively,
they said, "What a number of things you have seen? you must have been very
happy." "Happy!" exclaimed the fir-tree, and then as he reflected upon what he
had been telling them, he said, "Ah, yes! after all those were happy days." But
when he went on and related all about Christmas-eve, and how he had been dressed
up with cakes and lights, the mice said, "How happy you must have been, you old
fir-tree."
But when he went on and related all about Christmas-eve, and
how he had been dressed up with cakes and lights, the mice said, "How happy you
must have been, you old fir-tree." "I am not old at all," replied the tree, "I
only came from the forest this winter, I am now checked in my growth." "What
splendid stories you can relate," said the little mice. And the next night four
other mice came with them to hear what the tree had to tell. The more he talked
the more he remembered, and then he thought to himself, "Those were happy days,
but they may come again.
Humpty Dumpty fell down stairs, and yet he
married the princess; perhaps I may marry a princess too." And the fir-tree
thought of the pretty little birch-tree that grew in the forest, which was to
him a real beautiful princess. "Who is Humpty Dumpty?" asked the little mice.
And then the tree related the whole story; he could remember every single word,
and the little mice was so delighted with it, that they were ready to jump to
the top of the tree. The next night a great many more mice made their
appearance, and on Sunday two rats came with them; but they said, it was not a
pretty story at all, and the little mice were very sorry, for it made them also
think less of it.
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The poet,
the artist, the man of science in his laboratory, the general,- we all do it;
and yet we are only the instruments which the Almighty uses; to Him alone the
honor is due. We have nothing of ourselves of which we should be proud." Yes,
this is what the poet wrote down. He wrote it in the form of a parable, and
called it "The Master and the Instruments." "That is what you have got, madam,"
said the pen to the inkstand, when the two were alone again. "Did you hear him
read aloud what I had written down?" "Yes, what I gave you to write," retorted
the inkstand.
"Did you hear him read aloud what I had written down?"
"Yes, what I gave you to write," retorted the inkstand. "That was a cut at you
because of your conceit. To think that you could not understand that you were
being quizzed. I gave you a cut from within me. Surely I must know my own
satire." "Ink-pitcher!" cried the pen. "Writing-stick!" retorted the inkstand.
And each of them felt satisfied that he had given a good answer. It is pleasing
to be convinced that you have settled a matter by your reply; it is something to
make you sleep well, and they both slept well upon it.
It is pleasing to
be convinced that you have settled a matter by your reply; it is something to
make you sleep well, and they both slept well upon it. But the poet did not
sleep. Thoughts rose up within him like the tones of the violin, falling like
pearls, or rushing like the strong wind through the forest. He understood his
own heart in these thoughts; they were as a ray from the mind of the Great
Master of all minds. "To Him be all the honor." THE END .
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It
was certainly more than a quarter of an hour before the daisy recovered its
senses. Half ashamed, yet glad at heart, it looked over to the other flowers in
the garden; surely they had witnessed its pleasure and the honour that had been
done to it; they understood its joy. But the tulips stood more stiffly than
ever, their faces were pointed and red, because they were vexed. The peonies
were sulky; it was well that they could not speak, otherwise they would have
given the daisy a good lecture.
The little flower could very well see
that they were ill at ease, and pitied them sincerely. Shortly after this a girl
came into the garden, with a large sharp knife. She went to the tulips and began
cutting them off, one after another. "Ugh!" sighed the daisy, "that is terrible;
now they are done for." The girl carried the tulips away. The daisy was glad
that it was outside, and only a small flower- it felt very grateful. At sunset
it folded its petals, and fell asleep, and dreamt all night of the sun and the
little bird.
At sunset it folded its petals, and fell asleep, and dreamt
all night of the sun and the little bird. On the following morning, when the
flower once more stretched forth its tender petals, like little arms, towards
the air and light, the daisy recognised the bird's voice, but what it sang
sounded so sad. Indeed the poor bird had good reason to be sad, for it had been
caught and put into a cage close by the open window. It sang of the happy days
when it could merrily fly about, of fresh green corn in the fields, and of the
time when it could soar almost up to the clouds.
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Here, in the first rose, a bird was born. His flight was like
the flashing of light, his plumage was beauteous, and his song ravishing. But
when Eve plucked the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, when she
and Adam were driven from Paradise, there fell from the flaming sword of the
cherub a spark into the nest of the bird, which blazed up forthwith. The bird
perished in the flames; but from the red egg in the nest there fluttered aloft a
new one- the one solitary Phoenix bird.
The bird perished in the flames;
but from the red egg in the nest there fluttered aloft a new one- the one
solitary Phoenix bird. The fable tells that he dwells in Arabia, and that every
hundred years, he burns himself to death in his nest; but each time a new
Phoenix, the only one in the world, rises up from the red egg. The bird flutters
round us, swift as light, beauteous in color, charming in song. When a mother
sits by her infant's cradle, he stands on the pillow, and, with his wings, forms
a glory around the infant's head.
When a mother sits by her infant's
cradle, he stands on the pillow, and, with his wings, forms a glory around the
infant's head. He flies through the chamber of content, and brings sunshine into
it, and the violets on the humble table smell doubly sweet. But the Phoenix is
not the bird of Arabia alone. He wings his way in the glimmer of the Northern
Lights over the plains of Lapland, and hops among the yellow flowers in the
short Greenland summer. Beneath the copper mountains of Fablun, and England's
coal mines, he flies, in the shape of a dusty moth, over the hymnbook that rests
on the knees of the pious miner.
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Once the Bell hung in the church tower; but now there is no
trace left of the tower or of the church, which was called St. Alban's.
"Ding-dong! ding-dong!" sounded the Bell, when the tower still stood there; and
one evening, while the sun was setting, and the Bell was swinging away bravely,
it broke loose and came flying down through the air, the brilliant metal shining
in the ruddy beam. "Ding-dong! ding-dong! Now I'll retire to rest!" sang the
Bell, and flew down into the Odense-Au, where it is deepest; and that is why the
place is called the "bell-deep."
But the Bell got neither rest nor sleep.
Down in the Au-mann's haunt it sounds and rings, so that the tones sometimes
pierce upward through the waters; and many people maintain that its strains
forebode the death of some one; but that is not true, for the Bell is only
talking with the Au-mann, who is now no longer alone. And what is the Bell
telling? It is old, very old, as we have already observed; it was there long
before grandmother's grandmother was born; and yet it is but a child in
comparison with the Au-mann, who is quite an old quiet personage, an oddity,
with his hose of eel-skin, and his scaly Jacket with the yellow lilies for
buttons, and a wreath of reed in his hair and seaweed in his beard; but he looks
very pretty for all that.
What the Bell tells? To repeat it all would
require years and days; for year by year it is telling the old stories,
sometimes short ones, sometimes long ones, according to its whim; it tells of
old times, of the dark hard times, thus: "In the church of St. Alban, the monk
had mounted up into the tower. He was young and handsome, but thoughtful
exceedingly. He looked through the loophole out upon the Odense-Au, when the bed
of the water was yet broad, and the monks' meadow was still a lake.
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