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To thee will we fly with the stork and the swallow, with the restless sea-gull and the wild swans. Thy birch-woods exhale refreshing fragrance under their sober, bending branches; on the tree's white stem the harp shall hang: the North's summer wind shall whistle therein! Who did we meet at Trollhätta? It is a strange story, and we will relate it.
And in ordinarily mild weather it is very beautiful up there the most beautiful time of the year, I think; the birch-woods are all of the clearest lilac, and the brackens turned to deep crimson; then the bent grass on the higher hills what they call deer's hair is a mass of gold. And I don't in the least mind being alone in the evening in fact, I enjoy it. It is a splendid time for reading.
The white April days shone all around him; the silver and purple clouds went flying overhead; here he was by the deep, brown pools again, with the gray rocks and the overhanging birch-woods and the long shallows filling all the world with that soft, continuous murmur. As for his singing? oh, yes, he could sing he could sing, if needs were,
Other summers remind me of fields of clover, or of birch-woods, or of apple-trees and berry bushes, but that summer took its character from the climbing-roses.
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