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FAMOUS SONGS
grandeur of Swiss scenery, the maid of honour had been brought into close association with the poet Friedrich Matthisson, who then held the appointment of reader to the princess. He was many years older than the enthusiastic girl, for such she was in years; but he was a poet; and the pair were surrounded by everything in nature that could foster and refine the purest, most exalted sentiment. They loved and their mutual devotion formed an idyl of sweetest, most idealized romance. Matthisson poured out the riches of his genius at the high-souled maiden's feet, and she dreamed that she was in Elysium.
" But this romance, like most others of its kind, was destined to a sadly prosaic ending. Adelaida, or Annette von Glafey, was of noble birth ; her lover was a poor pastor's son. Once more in Dessau, and face to face with the harsh realities of life, the maid of honour was sum-moned to hear the doom of her happiness spoken from the lips of her relentless father— ' Marriage in your own rank, or retirement to Mosigkan.'"
Annette made up her mind at once, and re-tired from the sunshine of the world to the dull, monotonous, loveless life in a nunnery. Her life was made more bitter by the fact that in after years, when it was too late, the patent of
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