[Gutenberg 37832] • The Danes, Sketched by Themselves. Vol. 2 (of 3) / A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors

Excerpt from The Danes, Sketched by Themselves, Vol. 2 of 3: A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors

Farther up on the land, the bare, desolate-look ing plain of sand disappears by degrees under high banks which are overgrown by a thick, low copse of brushwood, with some stunted oak and beech trees showing themselves as sad mementoes of an extensive wood, that formerly joined the forest of Erizo, and in the midst of which the village of Bannerup was situated. The village and the wood have both disappeared long since.

Far in among the bushes people sometimes stumble upon pieces of broken stones with their mouldering cement of lime, the last fragments of the work and walls of ages gone by: in a few years the copse itself will have vanished, and the blackbird and the thrush, whose blithe carols on the summer evenings were heard even by those sailing near in the Belt, will seek other leafy homes.

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