I drink to an increased appropriation."
On the heath Dalgas was prophet, prince, and friend of the people.
In the crowds that flocked about his bier homespun elbowed gold lace
in the grief of a common loss. Boughs of the fragrant spruce decked
his coffin, the gift of the heath to the memory of him who set it
free.
To Dalgas apply the words of the seer with which he himself
characterized the Society that was the child of his heart and brain:
"The good men are those who plant and water," for they add to the
happiness of mankind.
KING CHRISTIAN IV
[Illustration: Musical notation with lyrics]
_Maestoso_.
King Christian stood by loft-y mast In mist and
smoke; His sword was ham-mer-ing so fast, Thro'
Goth-ic helm and brain it passed; Then sank each hos-tile
hulk and mast. In mist and smoke. "Fly,"
shout-ed they, "fly, he who can! Who braves of Denmark's
Christ-i-an, Who braves of Denmark's Christian The stroke?"
Deep in the beech-woods between Copenhagen and Elsinore, upon the
shore of a limpid lake, stands Frederiksborg, one of the most
beautiful castles in Europe. In its chapel the Danish kings were
crowned for two centuries, and here was born on April 12, 1577, King
Christian of the Danish national hymn which Longfellow translated
into our tongue.
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