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FAMOUS SONGS
there are many homely lays and love lyrics. " Ljung By hornet" (" The Horn on the Heath") is a fine legend, and " Trollhattan," and " Kung Bele" are also legends dear to the souls of the natives. The epic " Frithiofsaga,5' by Tegner, is something after the style of Longfellow's " King Olaf," and, though not a song, is worth calling attention to. Among the very popular songs are " Du Gamla, Du Friska, Du Fyell-hoga-Nord!" (" You old, you fresh, you rocky-high North !"); " I Dag ar Forsta Maj" (" To-day is first [of] May"). At Christmas they have " Nur ar det Jul igen" (" Christmas has come again"). A well-known Flemish song is " De Vlaamsche Leeun" (" The Flemish Lion").
The greatest of all the Austrian pieces is of course Haydn's" Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser," It is said that during his visits to London Haydn oftexr envied the English their " God Save the King," and the war with France having stirred his pulses and fired his imagination, he resolved to provide the people with an anthem worthy of their fidelity and patriotism. Thus arose his " God Preserve the Emperor," which he com-posed to words by L. L. Haschka in 1797; it was publicly sung at the national theatre at Vienna, and at all the principal theatres in the provinces on the emperor's birthday in that year, and
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