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Identifier: romanticgermany00scha (find matches)
Title: Romantic Germany
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Schauffler, Robert Haven, 1879-1964
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Germany Germany -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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lindens were in full flower. Littledaisies made specks of brightness on the springy,swarded banks of a lazy brook, where willowsdrooped over drowsing lily-pads. There were rose-bushes as tall as Frederick Williams grenadiers,who used to grow vegetables on the very spot wherea goat-footed marble Marsyas now capered gaily tosave his skin, among clouds of lilac and great, bloom-ing fruit-trees. Delightfully un-Prussian gardenerssnored under sacking in the shade, and their new-mown grass lay heaped informally by them on thewalks. The branches were full of bird-song, andthe thought came that the musical Frederick musthave stocked his gardens with songsters as he stockedhis palaces with philosophers and painters and mu-sicians. May the birds of Sans Souci prove as hardya race as the Hohenzollerns themselves! The grounds were full of surprises. I came uponmasses of fern backed by feathery spruces, dwarfcypresses, and curious, glistening trees that crawledon the ground, smothered in ivy. 120
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ALLEY IN SANS SULCI IARK POTSDAM At three, the old gardeners whom I had left snor-ing at eleven were still making music in the shade,and I rejoiced to find that here the discipline of theland was suitably relaxed. Berlin is strictly business to the HohenzoUerns;but they do not let that grim affair spoil the sweet-ness of Potsdam. The people seem human andsympathetic, the martial statuary gentle and ama-teurish after the ferocity of Berlin. Even the fourRomans about one of the fountains who are hurry-ing away with the four Sabines are doing it likegentlemen, and the frowns of the ladies are palpablyassumed. A lion and a tiger, both on the verge ofpurring, watch you as you climb toward an archsurmounted by the most genial eagle in the world.Beside the main fountain there is a statue of Marsshying a little javelin. His dog-like wolf is joy-ously on the bound to retrieve it, and you fancy thatthe man of might is about to wink at Mercury, whois placidly tying his winged shoes over beyond t

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