Ask the willow, ask the blossoming elder! At all events, hebade farewell to Nuremberg and journeyed onwards. He never spoke ofJoanna to any one; his sorrow was hidden in his heart. The oldchildish story of the two cakes had a deep meaning for him. Heunderstood now why the gingerbread man had a bitter almond in his leftside; his was the feeling of bitterness, and Joanna, so mild andfriendly, was represented by the honeycake maiden. As he thoughtupon all this, the strap of his knapsack pressed across his chest sothat he could hardly breathe; he loosened it, but gained no relief. Hesaw but half the world around him; the other half he carried withhim in his inward thoughts; and this is the condition in which he leftNuremberg. Not till he caught sight of the lofty mountains did theworld appear more free to him; his thoughts were attracted to outerobjects, and tears came into his eyes. The Alps appeared to him likethe wings of earth folded together; unfolded, they would display thevariegated pictures of dark woods, foaming waters, spreading clouds,and masses of snow. "At the last day," thought he, "the earth willunfold its great wings, and soar upwards to the skies, there toburst like a soap-bubble in the radiant glance of the Deity. Oh,"sighed he, "that the last day were come!"
Silently he wandered on through the country of the Alps, whichseemed to him like a fruit garden, covered with soft turf. From thewooden balconies of the houses the young lacemakers nodded as hepassed. The summits of the mountains glowed in the red evening sunset,and the green lakes beneath the dark trees reflected the glow. Then hethought of the sea coast by the bay Kjoge, with a longing in his heartthat was, however, without pain. There, where the Rhine rolls onwardlike a great billow, and dissolves itself into snowflakes, whereglistening clouds are ever changing as if here was the place oftheir creation, while the rainbow flutters about them like amany-colored ribbon, there did Knud think of the water-mill atKjoge, with its rushing, foaming waters. Gladly would he have remainedin the quiet Rhenish town, but there were too many elders andwillow-trees.
So he travelled onwards, over a grand, lofty chain of mountains,over rugged,- rocky precipices, and along roads that hung on themountain"s side like a swallow"s nest. The waters foamed in the depthsbelow him. The clouds lay beneath him. He wandered on, treading uponAlpine roses, thistles, and snow, with the summer sun shining uponhim, till at length he bid farewell to the lands of the north. Then hepassed on under the shade of blooming chestnut-trees, throughvineyards, and fields of Indian corn, till conscious that themountains were as a wall between him and his early recollections;and he wished it to be so.
Before him lay a large and splendid city, called Milan, and herehe found a German master who engaged him as a workman. The masterand his wife, in whose workshop he was employed, were an old, piouscouple; and the two old people became quite fond of the quietjourneyman, who spoke but little, but worked more, and led a pious,Christian life; and even to himself it seemed as if God had removedthe heavy burden from his heart. His greatest pleasure was to climb,now and then, to the roof of the noble church, which was built ofwhite marble. The pointed towers, the decorated and open cloisters,the stately columns, the white statues which smiled upon him fromevery corner and porch and arch,- all, even the church itself,seemed to him to have been formed from the snow of his native land.Above him was the blue sky; below him, the city and the wide-spreadingplains of Lombardy; and towards the north, the lofty mountains,covered with perpetual snow. And then he thought of the church ofKjoge, with its red, ivy-clad walls, but he had no longing to gothere; here, beyond the mountains, he would die and be buried.
Three years had passed away since he left his home; one year ofthat time he had dwelt at Milan.
One day his master took him into the town; not to the circus inwhich riders performed, but to the opera, a large building, itself asight well worth seeing. The seven tiers of boxes, which reachedfrom the ground to a dizzy height, near the ceiling, were hung withrich, silken curtains; and in them were seated elegantly-dressedladies, with bouquets of flowers in their hands. The gentlemen werealso in full dress, and many of them wore decorations of gold andsilver. The place was so brilliantly lighted that it seemed likesunshine, and glorious music rolled through the building. Everythinglooked more beautiful than in the theatre at Copenhagen, but thenJoanna had been there, and- could it be?
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