The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-09-26

we saw not an actress, but young girl full Of
natural geniaity and grace She seemed TO move,
speak, aud sing, without an effort of art All was
nature and harmony. Her song was distinguished
especially by its purity, and the power of soul
which seemed to swell her tones. Her "mezzo
voice was delightful. In the night scene where
Agatha. seeing her overcome, breathes out her
JOY IN rapturous song, our young singer, on turn
ing from the window, at the back of the theatre,
to the spectators again, was pale for joy And in
mat pale JOY business she sang with burst of out
flowing love and life that called forth not the
mirth but the tears Of the auditors
From that time, she was the declared favorite
Of the Swedish public, whose musical taste and
knowledge are said TO be surpassed nowhere, and
year after year she continued to sing though after
time her voice, being overstrained lost somew bat
its freshness and the public, being satiated, no
more crowded the house when she was singing
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playing more delightful than ever in Pauamia,
era was almost deserted 1t was then late in the
spring, and the beautiful weather called the peo-
pie out to natures plays. She had evidently
sang for the pleasure Of the song.
BY that time she went to take lessons of Garcia,
in Paris, and so gave the finishing touch to her
musical education. There she acquired that war
BILE, TO which she is said to have been equslled by
oihSeIs anu WHICH COmpareu only 10 tnat OF the
soaring and wsrbing lark, il the lark had a soul.
And then the young girl went abroad and sang
on foreign shores and to foreign people she
charmed Denmark, and charmed Germany, and
charmed England. She was caressed and courted
everywhere, even TO adulation. At the courts of
OF the kings, at the house Of the great and noble,
she was Toasted as one Of the grandees Of nature
and art She was covered with laurels and jew
els. But friends wrote Of Der, g In the midst of
these splendors she only thinks of her Sweden and
yearns for her friends and her people,
One dusty October night, crowds of people
the most part, by their dress seeming to belong
TO the upper classes of society thronged on the
Baltic harbor at Stockholm. All looked towards
thessa. There was rumor Of expectancs and
pleasure Hours passed away, and the crowds
still gathered and waited, and looked out eagerly
towards the sea. At length brilliant rocket
arose joyfully far out the entrance of the har.
I Dor, and was greeted with general buzz on
shore, There she comes. there she is ~
large steamer now came laundering on, making
its triumphant way through the focks of ships
and boats lying in the harbor, towards the shore
Of the "Skeppsbron Flashing rockets marked
its way in the dark as it advanced. The crowd
on the shore pressed forward as if to meet it
Now the leviathan of the waters was heard thun
dering nearer, now it relented, now again pushed
on, foaming and splashing, now it lay still AnC
| there on the front of the deck was seen by tn,
| light of the lamps and rockets pale, graceful
young woman, with eyes brilliant with tears, anC
lips radiant with smiles, waving her handkerchie
| to her friends and countrymen on the shore.
| 1t was she again-our poor, plain, neglected
| little girl of former days-who came back in tri
umph to her fatherland But no more poor, NJ
more plain, no more neglected. She had becom'
celebrated she had in her slender person tn,
power to charm and inspire multitudes
Some days later, we read in the paper ofStock
| holm an address to the public, written by the be
loved singer, stating with noble simplicity that
| as she once more had the happiness to be in oul
native land, she would be glad to sing again t
| her countrymen, and that the income of tn
operas in which she was this season to appeal
would be devoted to raise a fund for schoo
where eleves for the theatre would be educated h
virtue and knowledge The intelligence wa
received as it deserved, and of course the oper,
house was crowded every time the beloved SINCE
sang there.
The first time she again appeared in tn
"Somnambulan lone of her favorite roles) thepub
lie after the curtain was dropped called her bacl
with great enthusiasm, and received her XS.H Nh
the burst i,s Of a 5SpE ssar mslaio~, wal
bling was heard The hurrahs were hushed il
stantly. And we saw the lovely singer standin
with her arms slightly extended, somewh hat bowin
forward, graceful rs a bird on its branch, wal
bling as no bird ever did, from note to note-an
on every one clear, strong, roaring warble--unt
she fell into the retournello Of her last song, an
again sang that joyful and touching strain:
No thought conceive how ! feel at my heart"
She has now accomplished the good work +
which our latest songs in Sweden have been de
voted and she is again to leave her native land t
sing to a far remote people She is expected thi
year in the United States of America, and her ar
rival is welcomed with general feeling of joy
All have heard Of her whole history we have nov
slightly Swallowed out; the expected guest, tn
poor little girl of former days, the celebrated
singer of nowadays, the genial child Of mature
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